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MORGAN'S 

GLAD 

TIDINGS 



MRS. A. H. MORGAN 



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"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are 
heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 

Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for 
1 am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find 
rest unto your souls. 

For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.** 



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Dedicated to All of God's Children, 

By 

A Fellow -Student. 

YE ARE the sons of the living God. 

Hosea 1:10 



INTRODUCTION 

DEAR reader, if you were asked whose life 
you would most like yours to resemble, 
would you not say, Jesus of Nazareth's? But, 
perhaps, with the next breath, you would add, 
"I cannot follow His example, for he was so dif- 
ferent. God gave him so much more than He has 
given me," 

Stop right here, dear reader, and take the words 
of the Elder Brother. See if he claimed more for 
himself than he did for you. "What I have done, 
you can do." "Follow me," he said; then, "Fol- 
low me," speaks today. "The words I speak, they 
are Spirit, they are LifeF' 

Now, how to seek, to ask, to knock, to find 
those words for yourself — not the personal Jesus, 
but the Christ — Truth — which he found. He 
pointed you to the way, and, if you will do your 
part, it will not be long until you, too, can say, "I 
and the Father are one." 



GOD'S CREATION 

CHOOSE which you will serve; you cannot 
serve both. Jesus chose this, was thirty 
years unfolding. Then he said this is what all 
must unfold to, to know Truth, Life, God. Claim, 
claim until you know. One God, One Creator: 
and his creation is good. 

Spirit is Life, Life contains body. You cannot 
put the greater inside the lesser. Which are your 
thoughts unfolding to? 



Infinite — ISo Beginning — ISo End 

Narrow is this way, and few there be that find 
it, for they have unfolded to the Finite for this 
world; they are bound in the men made creation. 
Here are the true I am's that will bring the 
Infinite to you, when you claim them: 

I am born in the image and likeness of God. 

I am Light. Ye are the light of the world. 

I am Strength. Be strong and of good cheer. 

I am Health. God is the health of all Nations. 

I am kind. Do unto others as you would they 
should do to you. 

I am the good Shepherd — Our good thought. 



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I am the sheep of His fold — The many good 
thoughts. 

I am born to live. God is Life. I am His 
child. 

I am Love. God is Love. Unchangeable, yes- 
terday, today, forever the same. 

Hold to these claims as you hold to twice two is 
four, and you will understand how Jesus unfolded. 
His body responded to these thoughts; the same 
as ours will if we go and do likewise. 

I am the way, the Truth, the Life. 

The I am is the real of us. Spirit, Life. God is 
Spirit, Life. JVe are His children . 



Finite Men's Creation 

Choose which you will serve; you cannot serve 
God and Mammon. 

Heir to 

Envy, Jealousy, 

Malice, Backbiting, 

Fornication, 

Adultery, 

Murder, 

Sin, Sickness, 

Death. 

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Nothingness, that is where this bondage will go. 
When we learn the true way. Life, Eternal Life. 

Finite, a beginning and an end. This creation 
unfolds to a little life shut up in this body, and the 
body must die to let the life out to get back to God 
in another world, a far away Heaven. 

Body responds to thought. Here are the I am's 
of this creation: 

I am a sinner born in sin and iniquity. 

I am sick. I am weak. 

I am nervous. I am worried. 

I am anxious. I am growing old. 

I am angry. I am afraid. 

I am born to die. 

Oh! humanity claiming these I am's we are 
bound in them. The body responds to thought. 
From our childhood we have unfolded to these 
thoughts for this world, expecting death would 
take them away. What can death give? Noth- 
ing but a harvest of its kind; sin, sickness. Turn, 
why will you die? Learn the lesson of Infinite. 
God is the giver of life — claim it; claim it until 
you know it. Spirit contains body; we have 
claimed body contains Spirit. Stop and see if you 
are not unfolding to Finite for this world, ex- 
pecting Infinite in the next. 

If we follow the teachings of Jesus, he claimed 
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unchangeable, yesterday, today, and forever. Life 
builds, not destroys. Death is the destroyer. 
Learn how to conquer the things that make death, 
the I am's above. The last enemy to be destroyed 
is death. 



Chapter I. 
THE PROBLEM 

DEAR reader, the true meaning of the words 
in this book must be found in thought. 
Now we will turn on the great searchlight. Go 
with me in thought into the past nineteen hundred 
years. The same sun was shining then that is 
shining today; the same principle holding that sun 
in its place as today. The distance of that sun 
from the earth is unchanged. There was the same 
thought then as today, — 

"Twinkle, twinkle, little star! 
How I wonder what you are!" 

Oh, humanity! Stop wondering about the stars! 
"Awake, thou that sleepest!" Right within thy- 
self is a greater problem to be solved! 

But we are asleep; we must awaken to the 
lesson. How? Let us follow the footsteps of 
one dear brother who found. And today his words 
are true. 

"What I have done, you can do." 

Turn on the searchlight. What do you see? 
A manger. Enter. There lies a beautiful babe. 
It came into this world the same as the babes of 
today come, and, like the babes of today, it 
grew. When old enough, the child was sent to the 
synagogue to be taught the doctrines of men. 



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Many, many times, dear reader, we will flash 
back and forth the great searchlight, thought, 
upon the situations then arid now. 

The little boy was taught that the Sabbath was 
from Friday eve to Saturday eve, and on that day 
he must try and shut out the thoughts and ways 
of the week and be filled with lessons for the Sab- 
bath — doctrines how to make men for the Sabbath. 

Turn the great light upon the words he found 
in his searchings: "The Sabbath was made for 
man, not man for the Sabbath." 

How many times in our childhood we have 
wished it would jump from Saturday into Monday, 
and leave Sunday out! Why? Trying to make 
man for that day! 

It was a warm climate, and that little boy 
loved to roam over the hillsides in his tiny bare 
feet, gathering wild flowers. 

Flash the searchlight on the little boys of today, 
loving to do the same now as then! 

Now, back to the hills of Palestine. Go with 
the child in his wanderings, climbing the hills 
picking the flowers. What sensation is that which 
comes over him? "How good to be here! What 
freedom!" Did he have that feeling while sur- 
rounded by those walls of the synagogue, being 
taught how to make man for the Sabbath? 

Stop right here, dear reader. What was it came 
to you and me, while roaming through the forests, 
or in the fields? I know you have felt it many 



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times, as you stood there alone — but no, not alone! 
You felt a something stir you within. You could 
not express it in words; you lived and felt it. We 
call it being near to nature, and nature near to us. 
Oh, dear reader, it is God! 

Now, as that little boy had those feelings come 
over him, he said, "It is good! Why can't I have 
this gladness all the time?" Then, as he gazed 
around on the same world upon which you and I 
are looking today, he said: "It is good to be 
here!" He looked up at the same starry firma- 
ment which you and I behold, and these thoughts 
filled him: "I wonder what power holds those 
stars in their place?" He saw the beautiful 
flowers, and the trees, putting forth their offerings 
in buds, bloom and fruit, all working in harmony 
with some unseen power. Then, as he looked 
around at mankind, he exclaimed: "What a 
wonderful structure we are! 

"Oh, why is it that all the rest of creation works 
in accord with some invisible power, but with 
mankind there is a discord, disease, death? Why 
is it? I believe there is a way, if we could only 
find it, by which we, too, could be in harmony with 
that power. Now, that shall be my life work, 
and I will search until I find that way. How shall 
I go about it? Where shall I go? How shall 
I find?" 

Can you not hear the little boy asking questions, 
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were given the same answers that were given to 
Jesus: "Child, don't try to find out anything for 
yourself. Go to Sunday school and church, and 
there they will teach you all about creation and 
God." Oh, hungry humanity! Did we find our 
answers there? Let us follow Jesus, and see if he 
found satisfaction. 

We find him, at the age of twelve, seeking the 
way. He had asked his father why the teachers 
could not answer his questions so he could under- 
stand. His father told him there were wise men 
at Jerusalem who could explain everything, for 
they knew all about God and man. How the little 
boy longed to go to Jerusalem! The opportunity 
came. His parents were going to attend the feast 
of the Dassover — the outward observance, called 
religion. Oh, what were his thoughts? 

Nov/ the time has come for him to stand face to 
face with the learned men and have his questions 
answered, and we are with him, standing before 
them, asking who made this beautiful world, and 
what is the power that keeps it in place. The wise 
men wonder, "Who can be the parents of this 
child, to let him grow up in such ignorance?" 
and answer him: "Why, child, God made this 
world!" 

Then the question came from that little boy, as 
it comes from millions today: 
"Who is God?" 
"Why, God is a spirit!" 



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The same answer that is given today. And 
how many "wise men" are still teaching, "God 
knows all things — when you are good and when 
you are bad. He has an open book before Him, 
in which your name is written. All the good and 
all the bad you have done are written there, and 
the day is coming when you will be judged from 
that book!" Jesus answers: "I have searched 
through the history of the past, and have found 
those teachings; but I do not find the record of 
one who is satisfied with them." He then asks: 

"Who is man?" 

The same answer is given him that was given 
us in our childhood: "God formed man of the 
dust of the ground, and breathed into his nos- 
trils the breath of life; and man became a living 
soul." 

Again Jesus replies: "The same teachings they 
have in the old history! But where is the record 
of one being satisfied? Why do they look forward 
for one to find the Truth, the Christ, for the 
Messiah?" 

Turn on the searchlight. Here come the parents, 
Joseph and Mary, very much like the parents of 
today, worried and anxious. Why? That little 
boy had been away three days and three nights. 
It was a long procession of humanity that had been 
faithful to the outward ceremonies, and the child 
was not missed at first. The parents thought he 
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appear, they went in search of him, and found him 
in the temple. Now, see how they worried over 
the boy, Jesus! And what would public opinion 
today be, if that same little boy lived in our city? 
A disobedient, bad boy, to give his parents so 
much anxiety! 

Oh, dear reader! Did his earthly parents 
understand that great lesson the little boy was 
longing to know and searching to find? which the 
parents, and you and I, must find and know, as 
he found it and knew it, — ^Who God is — who 
man is. 

And in his teachings, after he had found, he 
brought forth these words: "Judge not!" for we 
judge from outward appearances. How many of 
us would have judged that little boy from the out- 
ward appearance? But, oh, the inward seeking 
and longing! Who, but the Father, knoweth that? 
Not the earthly, unless he has learned the lesson. 

Now we will return to the little boy. We will 
take the mother's question: "Son, why hast thou 
thus dealt with us? Thy father and I have sought 
thee, sorrowing." 

Oh, dear reader, what a world of light will 
come to you later on, when you have followed his 
teachings. Theology teaches that Joseph was not 
his father. What were the mother's words? When 
the light comes to you from Jesus' teachings, it 
will show you whom he meant by Father, — 
Heavenly, not earthly. 



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Jesus answers his parents: "Wist ye not that I 
must be about my Father's business?" And, oh, 
when we understand the true meaning of those 
words, we v/ill all be about the Father s business! 

There was a longing to know something that 
the earthly parents could not explain. Have we, 
dear reader, been helped to find the Heavenly 
Father by the teaching of the earthly parents, — 
the opinions of men? 

Turn on the searchlight and follow the little boy. 
Sorrowful, but not discouraged, he went home with 
his parents. See him, working at his father's 
tool bench with his hands, but working in his 
thoughts like this: 



Chapter II. 
GOD'S RECORD 

OH, where shall I go for help? How shall 
I satisfy that longing? Father, mother 
teachers in the synagogue — none could point the 
way that satisfied; and now the learned men have 
failed to do so. Where shall I turn now? I will 
keep on, for surely there is a way for mankind 
to express harmony like the rest of creation, for 
are we not wondeerfully made! Yet, the rest of 
creation is showing forth unseen power that 
mankind is not. 

I will go back to the first chapter of the record, 
and find what the thoughts were about creation 
at that time, to see if I can get any help from 
that source. Now, here is where I find my first 
word lesson, in that first chapter of Genesis: 

"God created man in His own image and like- 
ness; both male and female created He them; gave 
them His blessing; gave them dominion over the 
whole world; pronounced His v/ork good." 

Oh, here are new thoughts! Not a word of evil 
in this creation — all good. Oh, I wonder if I 
can find, if I hold on to these thoughts? 

I will see what the word "God" means. Oh, 
it means Good! What does the word "man" 
mean? It means expression of life! Now, what 
does this mean? 



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"God (Good) created man (expression of life) 
in His own image and likeness; gave them His 
blessing; gave them dominion over the whole 
world!" Both male and female he "gave" to alike! 
All Good! Not a thought of sin, sickness, or 
death, in that creation! 

Oh, I Y^^ill hold on to those first words. I 
will think on those first words. I will live in those 
first words. >k * * * * 

Now, I have v/orked away thirty years at the 
problem, but I have mastered, and, dear brethern, 
I come out to tell you the way can be found to 
live in harmony, showing forth like the rest of 
creation. And, oh, what else is there to find? Do- 
minion! The highest of all God's creation we are, 
but how ignorant we are of our dominion! 

Oh, humanity! Now I will come, and do what 
I can to point to you, to find for yourselves if the 
words I speak are not Spirit and Life. 

Come unto me, all ye who are weary and heavy 
laden, and learn of me; for the yoke is easy, and 
the burden is light; and ye shall find rest unto 
your souls. 

Now, I say unto you. Come unto me, and learn, 
— not lean! I will be to you a teacher, a brother, 
a guide to point you to the Way. When you 
find the Way, you will find Truth; when you find 
Truth, you will find Life, — three in one! 

Nov/, I found the words in the first chapter of 
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and ears of the understanding. I claimed those 
words as true words. I entertained them until 
they brought forth fruit. By their fruits ye shall 
know them. 



Chapter III. 
MEN'S RECORD 

WiiiLL, dear brother, why is it that others 
have not found as you have?" 

We know not how many millions have found, 
but they give no record. Now, the True Way is 
found in the words of the first chapter recorded. 

But, you see that, after the first chapter, history 
records the mistakes, as well as the true answers. 
We are taught from the doctrines of men, founded 
on the second chapter. Now, are not these words 
more familiar to you than those in the first chap- 
ter? "Man is formed out of the dust of the 
ground; then God breathes into his nostrils the 
breath of life, and he becomes a living soul." 

Yes, you were taught to claim those words in 
childhood, and as you grew, they began to bear 
fruit. 

Oh, brethern! I realize the greater work you 
will do than I have done, because I began to work 
in childhood; but the results will be the same. In 
childhood, I began to work out from under those 
teachings, — to pioneer myself, — until I worked 
into the words of the creation in the first chapter. 
And you must do the same. You must work out 
your own salvation. I can tell you there is no 
other way under the shining sun whereby men 
can be saved. Learn of me. What I have done 
you can do. 



Chapter IV. 

THE LESSON 

OW, you see, a habit of a hundred years is 
harder to master than one of a few; but it 
can be done. Many times I will speak after the 
manner of men. Now in mathematics: The same 
principle is back of the problem in addition that 
is back of fractions, and a mistake in addition 
hides the way of mastering the problem in frac- 
tions. In that lesson in mathematics, you do not 
learn to take the greater problem to work at 
first, but first overcome the lesser, and then you can 
overcome the greater. You have been over that 
way, hence know I speak the truth about it. But 
suppose you were ignorant of the ways of mathe- 
matics, you could not understand the meaning of 
the words I speak concerning it. At one time you 
did not know twice two is four; but it was four, 
whether or not you were conscious of it. How 
did you become conscious of the truth of it? Was 
it not by claiming and claiming that it is, not has 
been or will be, but is? At first that thought was 
a stranger to you; but you entertained it — kept 
entertaining it; it came in and supped with you 
and, by and by, after you had entertained it just 
long enough, it came to abide with you; then you 
had "rest" in that thought. You are taught that 
such lessons are for this world; that they can and 
must be mastered right here, in this world, for 



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there are those who have done the work ; thus 
you find, The Yoke is easy, and the burden is 
light. 

Now, in this lesson, the Problem of Life, solved 
right here in this world : We have no record of one 
v/lio has accomplished the whole, but as a teacher, 
a guide, a brother, a Savior in this way only, to 
point you to the record of one who was tempted 
in all points like yourself, but found the way to 
master them, have I come, and only in that way 
can I be of any use to you. Take the words I 
speak unto you; hold on to them, as I have done, 
and I know what I have done you can do. But 
you must be faithful to the v/ords, and it will 
then not take you so long as it did me, if you will 
believe what I tell you. I had to pioneer to find 
the true words; they were hidden with false words. 
Now I know what the true words are, and I can 
give them right to you. They came from true 
thoughts: First in thought; then in word; then in 
deed! Now I know whereof I speak. 

Knowledge of the only true creation will come 
to you from claiming these words: I AM cre- 
ated in the likeness and image of God. He 
gave me His blessing. He gave me dominion 
over the whole world.; it is the dominion of good. 

Now, the "I AM" of you is Lift. Why? The 
Creator-Principle is Life Gave you His bless- 
ing. His blessing, life. Accept it. Thank Him 
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pronounced His work good. And you are the 
work of His hands. Now, watch your thoughts. 
Stand porter at the door of your thoughts, until 
you are master of them. That is the key to 
the door of the "Kingdom of Heaven," and no 
one can unlock that door but yourself. That 
"door" is Understanding Knock, ask, seek, with 
the right thoughts, and the door will open to you. 
No one can walk for you. No one can eat for 
you. No- one can sleep for you. Now, do your 
own thinking. I did mine. No one could do it 
for me. But when I held on and mastered, what 
did I find? The ivay to walk, eat, sleep, and 
think, came from the Father, Life, Principle, God. 
He gave all the Good; I was the willing child, 
the obedient child, to accept, claim, use what 
He had given me. 

And, now, I can say unto you; you can do the 
same. But you must first be willing to do the 
work. No one else can do our work for us. 
It is a perfect work. But you must understand 
this to know it. God, Father, is perfect. His 
work is perfect work. Be ye perfect as your 
Father is perfect! 

Look for the perfect until you find it. Look 
for it within yourself. The kingdom of God is 
within you! Don't look for the perfect in me 
to follow. When I said, "Follow me," it was 
the words I was speaking which you were to 
follow, just as you followed your teachers' in- 
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"Give us of this understanding." I cannot. It 
is with you. God gave you all, as He did me. 
But I learned how to use what He gave. Now 
I can only tell you how to use what He has given 
you, if you are willing. I cannot make you. We 
must choose for ourselves. 



CHAPTER V. 
THE CHARGE 

GOD gave His blesing. It is freely given; 
we must freely receive. 

"Oh, don't you charge for the teachings?" 

Yes. The only great charge, and the only 
charge you can pay. The '^charge^' is, Be Faith- 
ful to the ivords, I speak unto you, for they are 
Spirit, they are life! 

Can anyone buy what he already has? Can 
anyone open another's understanding? No, never. 
But if one has learned the v/ay that opens under- 
standing, he can point that way to another. But 
each one must do his ov/n walking in that way, 
for it is God's way — good v/ay. It came from 
God. He gave it to alL God is no respecter of 
persons. Whosoever asks, knocks, seeks, shall 
find! 

I tell you I know this is Truth, for I have done 
the work. I can point you to where the mistakes 
arose; yei you cannot know it as Truth until 
the door of your understanding is opened. But, 
oh, my brother, I will do the best I can, by 
pointing you to the v/ay to open that door. If 
ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples 
indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth 
shall make you free. 



CHAPTER VI. 
THE WORK 

NOW, y/e will go back to your childhood. You 
were taught from this creation: "God 
formed man out of the dust of the ground, and 
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and 
man became a living souL^' 

Oh, my brethren, here is where all the mistakes 
have arisen. Now, you see, in that creation the 
first claim of man's creation is that he was formed 
out of th-s dust of the ground; then God breathed 
into his nostrils the breath of life, and he became 
a living soul. Giving the power to the dust, and 
giving it right along in that version of creation: 
"Dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou return." 

You see, here they have body first, spirit — life 
— last. And all along the journey they claim 
body greater, and all the life, they claim, is shut 
up in that body. And from that creation comes 
forth its fruits — fear; and fear bringeth forth its 
fruits — thoughts of envy, jealousy, malice, back- 
biting, fornication, adultry, murder. Now, the 
fruits of thinking those thoughts are sin, sickness, 
death! You see there is a beginning and an end to 
that creation — birth and death — finite. 

Such have been the teachings of your child- 
hood, and you are showing forth the fruits of 
those lessons! You are taught that this body 



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is a wicked body, that there is no good thing in 
it; yet that all the life you have is shut up in 
it; and you are working heroically all the time 
to keep that life in that wicked body. The same 
teachings tell you that the only way for that life 
to get back to the Father is to give up that wicked 
body, to let the life go back to the Father (dust) 
whence it came. Dust thou are, to dust thou 
shalt return. Do those thoughts bring you happi- 
ness? Are you longing and wishing for that 
happy day to come? So glad to leave all that 
is here in this beautiful world? And are the 
teachers of those doctrines trying to do all they 
can to leave this v^^icked world? 

To dust thou shalt return? Well, that Father 
does not give all, does He, if He takes it again? 
He is only a loaner, not a giver. Then, where 
do those teachings say the Father is? A long way 
off? Beyond the starry sky? "Up in heaven? 
No wonder the poor children are lost in the dark- 
ness, and groping around, with a Father like that, 
never coming near them, the only way for them 
to reach Him to die and go to Him — leave this 
wicked body; we can't take that, and it is all we 
have known. 

Those same teachings told you that what you fed 
tJiat body upon gave it health, gave it strength, 
kept life in it; that you must watch the body, be 
a sentinel over that wicked body, for you could 
only have the life that was in it for awhile. You 
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part, and to the Creator, God, who made it. His 
part. 

I tell you, it is a lie, and the father of it is 
a lie. You have divided the house, and it will 
fall. What God hath joined together, let not man 
put asunder. I find that God hath joined life and 
body. 

The channel through which the understanding 
is opened to you, is soul or thought. 

Oh, blind leaders of the blind! You shall all 
fall into a ditch. How can a brother tell a brother 
to cast the mote out of his eye, when he has a 
beam within his own? 

Now, I tell you that mankind has been so long 
unfolding from those thoughts of creation, that 
that way has become very broad, and many go in 
thereat, but it leadeth to destruction. For the end 
of that thought is death; is not that destruction, 
decay? Oh, turn! Why will ye die? 

Through that claim comes another false one — 
that Adam and Eve, as our first parents, gave us 
an inheritance of sin, and here they have been 
holding on to that thought and bringing forth 
fruit. And what is the fruit of sin? 

I tell you that every seed bringeth forth of its 
kind, and every thought bringeth forth of its own 
kind. Oh, that is why I say unto you. Watch 
your thoughts. Your body, the lesser, responds 
to your thoughts, the greater. When thoughts are 
mastered, they show forth through the body; if 



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unmastered, they show forth through the body. The 
body is the temple God gave us to show forth 
His works: First, in thought, then in word, then 
in deed. Now, to which is your body responding? 
You only have to give an account of the deeds 
done in your body, but, oh, my brethren, time will 
go on and on, until we show forth what the 
Heavenly Father gave us — ALL He had, the Per- 
fect. 

Be ye perfect, as the Father is perfect. Look 
for perfection, think perfection; claim perfection, 
just as you did "Twice two is four." He gave it 
to you. Will you accept? 

Choose whom ye will serve of the two creations 
— the true or the false. You cannot serve two 
masters. 



CHAPTER VII. 
THE UNFOLDING 

SEEK YE first the kingdom of God and all 
else will be added. Now, where were we 
taught to seek God's kingdom in the teachings of 
men? Not in this world, but in another. Now 
you see how their men-made creation has turned 
things wrong side out, the Father and His kingdom 
last. Oh, brethren, it is a mistake. Change your 
thoughts. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and 
all else will be added." 

Where is God? God is everywhere. God is 
life. Look around, above, beneath. Life, life 
everywhere. You cannot see it, because you are 
claiming death. I tell you "the last enemy to 
be destroyed is death." Now, you, through ignor- 
ance, are letting it destroy you. 

"Oh, give us of this understanding." I cannot. 
Of myself I can do nothing. It is God who 
giveth to all life and understanding. I can only 
point the way to unfold, to find. You must do 
your own unfolding as I have done mine. 

God gave us a thinker and the thoughts to go 
with it, but we, through ignorant, wrong thoughts, 
mistakes, have filled our thinker with bad tenants, 
made it a "den of thieves." "Thy foes are those 
of thine own household." We must go to work 
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Now, it took me thirty years to do this work, 
but my reward is right here with me. I do not 
have to wait to receive it in another world. The 
reward is: "I am fortified with the knowledge 
of the Dominion God gave me. I can, through 
Christ, do all things. That is why I can tell you 
what is the work the Father, Principle, has given 
you to do, for Principle is no respector of per- 
sons." "Oh, you make yourself equal with God! 
You are a blasphemer. 

"You have been calling the Christ, Lord, David's 
son. 

How, then, doth David, in spirit, call him Lord, 
saying: 

" ' The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my 
right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool.' 

"David, therefore, calleth him Lord; how is he 
then his son? 

David found "Lord" meant "Truth," and that 
Truth, understood, made a footstool of the teach- 
ings from the second account of creation. 

You have been trying to unfold from the teach- 
ings of things seen. I tell you they are temporal, 
while all the time what David unfolded from is 
right with you. It is unfolding from the imseen 
things. Can you see Love, Joy, Kindness, Hap- 
piness, Strength, by looking at another unfolding? 
They are invisible, eternal, immortal, but, as with 
David, the only way to show forth is through the 



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visible. Mortal must be swallowed up in im 
mortal. Now that is the lesson, David learned 
Swallow up the false creation, mortal, in the knowl- 
edge that there is but one creation, the immortal. 

David had his struggles and lessons in his own 
unfolding, but it will do you no good to call him 
Christ, and lean upon him. You must work out 
your own salvation, as I have done. That is why 
I can tell you I know the Christ, Truth, and it is 
yours. But you must do your own unfolding. I 
can only point the way. But I know there is no 
other way by which men can be saved from ignor- 
ance and its claims. 

We are heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ. 
Now, you see an heir must be nearer than a joints 
heir. We are made in God's image and likeness. 
Live in him; move in him; have our being in him. 
That is our birthright, our true birth, our inherit' 
ance. Life. He gave that in the beginning, Om^ 
nipotent. Omniscient, Omnipresent. I find right 
now the meaning: All-powerful, All-knowing, 
Everywhere-present, from everlasting to everlast- 
ing. This is your true birth. You can know all 
this through the unfolding to the "joint-heir," 
Christ. 

You have to find Christ— the Way. You will 
know it is Truth, and it is right with you now. 
Heirs of the Kingdom! You have been claiming 
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Awake, thou that sleepest! You go on day by 
day in your ignorance, claiming in the far-off 
somewhere, sometime, that, perhaps if you are 
good enough, when you die, you will find all. 

Oh, humanity! In God you live, and move, and 
have your being, right with you now, this moment. 

"Now are ye the sons of God. Now is the day of 
salvation. Now is the accepted time." 

In your lesson in mathematics you had to find 
the way to work the example. When you had 
mastered it, you found the answer was the heir to 
the principle — part of it; you found that working 
into the principle was finding the Truth, the 
"joint-heir." So with this lesson. Life, you must 
find the way — Truth, Christ. I have found it, and 
I know we are nearer principle, God, for in him 
we live, move, and have our being. But we are in 
ignorance of it. We must find the "joint-heir," 
Christ, Truth, to point us the way. 



CHAPTER VIII. 
THE MARK OF HIGH CALLING 

OH, you say, I call myself "Son of God," yet 
associate with sinners! Oh, humanity! Do 
you know the meaning of "sinner"? One who has 
lost his way, missed the mark, the "mark of high 
calling." The word "sin" means, "missed the 
mark." 

Oh, how many of us have been sinning in our 
school lessons? Did we get the right answer the 
first time? Oh, no; we missed the mark often and 
often. Now did the teacher say, "You wicked 
child, you will never get the right answer, because 
you have made a mistake!" Oh, no; the dear, 
kind teacher said, "Rub it out, and keep on rub- 
bing, seventy times seven." The teacher takes the 
sinner, the child who is making a mistake trying 
to get its lesson, by the hand, and pays no attention 
to the mistakes — sin — knowing they are only mis- 
takes, made through ignorance of the way to work 
out the true answer. 

I came to teach the lesson to save sinners, those 
who are groping around in the darkness of the 
teachings of the man made account of creation. I 
pay no attention to the sin, the mistakes that come 
from not knowing the way. Why should we think 
about the mistakes? When the true way is learned 
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way, so that if your "mistakes" are scarlet they 
will be washed whiter than snow. 

But, oh, humanity! You must be willing to do 
your own "rubbing out" of the mistakes. I did 
mine. And, oh, humanity! What most of all 
must you rub out? The bondage of error. You 
are in bondage. "When you know the Truth, the 
Truth will set you free." 

Oh, humanity! Of which tree are you eating 
the fruits? The "Tree of Life," God-made, or 
the "tree of knowledge," man-made? 

Can you see Love, Kindness, Joy, Happiness, 
Health, Strength, by looking at another? They 
are invisible but you can manifest them through 
the visible. You only can do that by living them. 
They cannot be argued with mere words. They 
must be lived. They must be felt, "Work out 
your own salvation." 

Now, I tell you 1 have found Heaven. Where? 
Within at hand. 

"Oh, if you have found Heaven, tell us what it 
looks like." 

The nearest illustration I can give you is the little 
child. 

It is nearer freedom. It has not yet been bound 
to the man made creation, has not yet been taught 
hate ; it is full of love, believes in you until you de- 
ceive it. How it trusts! 

"Except ye become as a little child, ye cannot 
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of Heaven is within you. "Oh, how can I become 
the child again?" 

You have been taught that the coming forth of 
the body is the only birth; but it is not. "You 
must be born again." Now, I have to speak after 
the manner of men. You have your body when 
you learn your lesson in mathematics, but you see 
you have to find the "way of understanding" into 
principle; that is being bom again into mathe- 
matics. Now, this is a lesson greater than mathe- 
matics for without Life you would have no need 
of mathematics. In the lesson of Life you must 
be bom of spirit. Life. What brought this body 
forth? Life. Then Life is first, before body. But 
you have to open the understanding to know this 
is Truth. 

How many of you are conscious of the birth of 
the body, and the first years you were unfolding 
in it? I tell you, brethren, you will be conscious 
of the spirit birth, just as you were conscious of 
your awakening to your school lessons. We have 
been asleep to Truth. Awake, thou that sleepest! 
Arise, and go ye to the Father. Draw nigh unto 
God, and He will draw nigh unto you. 

Oh, humanity! Every time you think a good 
thought you are drawing nigh unto God — Good. 
Every time you speak a good word, you are draw- 
ing nigh unto God — Good. You are talking and 
walking with God, but you are unconscious of it. 
Now, to know you can live every moment in the 
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is the lesson into which I am so willing to point 
you the way. But we must be willing to choose 
for ourselves. For no one else can walk with and 
talk to God for us. 

I say to you, Watch your thoughts. Stand por- 
ter at the door of your thoughts, until you master 
them. Now, no one can do that for you; not the 
nearest and dearest — father, mother, brother, sis- 
ter, husband, wife, not one can get into your 
thinker and know what you are thinking, only as 
you manifest thought through the temple — ^the out- 
ward expression, the body. 

And if it was not for life, how could you show 
forth thought? I tell you your body is necessary 
for you. The loving Father knows what is neces- 
sary for you in His creation to show forth His 
works. If you had no body how could you put your 
arms around the loved ones; without life, could 
those arms move? 

Oh, dear brethren, we are in ignorance of the 
Father. We are in ignorance of ourselves. This 
body is the temple of the living God, the living 
Good. Without life, our body could not move; 
without our body, we could not show forth life. 
"What God hath joined together, let no man put 
asunder." God joined life and body, and this secret 
is for you to know, but it cometh from the Father 
to you. 

You have acknowledged the goodness of God 
with your lips. You have said that life is good, 
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Standing. Never will it be understood from the 
ignorant teachings of men, that the loving Father 
gave us a little life for a little while then he will 
take it away. You make God's love less than an 
earthly parent's. What earthly parent would give 
his children a little life, then afflict them with envy, 
jealousy, malice, backbiting, fornication, adultery 
murder, sin, sickness, then after all that, separate 
them with death? 

"If his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?" 

Oh, brethren, you don't know Father! He is All- 
Love, ^//-Gentleness, ^//-Kindness, All-hiiel He 
has given us what he has — AIL To know the All- 
ness is right here for you today. You must do as 
I tell you. Claim the All. What could he give you 
of anything else if He is All? 

"Son, all I have is thine." "Now you are the 
son of God." Heir of God. Claim your birthright, 
and keep claiming, until it begins to show forth — 
first in thought, then in word, then in deed, bearing 
fruit. 

But don't look for the fruit first. The seed, 
thought, is first, the fruit, deed, is last. But all the 
growing time is necessary. First, the blade, then 
the ear, then the full grown com. If ye have faith 
as a grain of mustard seed, let it grow and do its 
work. From that little mustard seed came the tree 
in whose branches the birds made their nests. 

Let the small seed of faith in what I tell you 
grow, and a perfect life will be the result. 

"Seek ye first the kingdom of Heaven." It is 
"within" you. You must work it out. 



CHAPTER IX. 
ONE GOD 

THE first work to do is to accept the claim. 
The Father has done His part, has given you 
ALL. It is with yourself to accept or reject. You 
are free to choose whom you will serve, Good or Er- 
ror. You cannot serve two masters. You cannot 
accept and reject. Which will you choose? You 
cannot serve God and Mammon. 

Oh, brethren! You are trying to accept both — 
one for this world and one for another. A house 
divided against itself will fall. 

The whole Good is right within you this moment. 
You do not know it, because you have only claimed 
part. 

The same fountain cannot give forth the bitter 
and the sweet. Can you gather figs off thistles? 
You were taught the same fountain sends forth life 
and death. I know whereof I speak. It cannot. 
You are ignorant of the source, that is all. 

Oh, humanity! "Come unto me all ye who are 
weary and heavy laden, and learn of me, for the 
yoke is easy and the burden is light. How many 
times have I helped my Father Joseph make yokes 
for the beasts to lighten their burdens. The first 
ones I made were quite rough, but with practice I 
soon mastered." So with this yoke. At first the 
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will be mastered. Then you will find rest for your 
souls. 

Did I have doubts and fears to overcome as you 
have? Yes; the doubt came to me in thought, say- 
ing: If you are finding such great power, promise- 
ing that if you dash your foot against a stone it 
will not harm you, because angels are watching 
over you, get up on that high pinnacle and jump off 
and see if it be true. If I had done so, my body 
would not be showing forth the better way. It 
would have been like a child trying to show forth 
its unlearned lesson; it would make a failure. 
Again, the doubting thought came. If you are hun- 
gry, command those stones to be made into bread. I 
had to master that thought, for it was a mistaken 
one ; it came from the doubting side, that the bread 
men put into the body gives them life. I find we do 
not live from that bread alone, but from the bread 
of Heaven, every good word. 

Then I had such a hard problem of this, the pride 
of men, when I found the way into the All-power. 
Many on this plane had worked to a certain point, 
then claimed the rest of the work had to be done in 
another world. And, as I worked away, not satis- 
fied with half when the whole was right here for me, 
the thoughts of false pride were hard problems to 
master. They came to me like this: You have 
found such great power. Just be the King right 
here in this world. All the glory of men, flattery, 
pomp, is what I can give you. They will bow down 
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there is a record of any one else's finding. I tell 
you, this was a hard lesson ; but I held faithful, and 
it was mastered. I said, "Get thee behind me, Sa- 
tan! I will worship only God." I had read the 
words Moses, Joshua, Isaiah, and many others, 
spoke. I claimed them for mine, and held to them, 
until they bore fruit. 

The I AM; from the beginning Moses held to 
them. They were a rod of strength. When he let 
doubt come in, they became serpents. 

There is no other way but to master the mistakes. 
"I came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill," to 
be filled full of Love. 

Ignorance can never find God's law for you. 

God is no respecter of persons. Moses had his 
own lesson to learn. He had to give an account 
for his own works, and if you had understood the 
first commandment, you would not need the tenth. 
The first is the beginning and the ending. Thou 
shalt have no other God before me. That is the 
one I found the way into through the first chapter 
of Genesis. Now, Ignorance taught you of another 
power, called Devil, Evil. How can you have only 
good in your thoughts if you have evil? You can- 
not mix oil and water. 

You cannot serve two masters. The same foun- 
tain cannot give forth the bitter and the sweet. Let 
go the one and cleave to the other, or let go the 
other, and cleave to the ONE. Come out from 
among them. Be ye separate. 



CHAPTER X. 
ONE COMMANDMENT 

I will give you a new commandment: Thou 
shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all thy heart, 
and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and 
thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 

Oh, how can we love some of our neighbors? 

But, again, you are looking on the outside. I tell 
you, your "neighbors" are your thoughts. Now, if 
your heart, soul, and strength, were filled with good 
thoughts, see who your neighbors would be. Wher- 
ever you go, they go with you. 

That is finding thyself, thy true and only self. I 
have found my true self. It was and is hid in God. 
I found there was nothing hid in Truth but what 
Truth will reveal. But it has been covered up so 
long, under forms and ceremonies, the outward ob- 
servances, that we have to dig deep to find it. 

I held like this : If the Creator only gave health, 
I will claim my birthright. I claimed health and 
the more I held to the claim the more I found I was 
born into health. Then I could see the reason why 
mankind was not working in harmony with the un- 
seen power. They knew not their right birth. Oh, 
what joy, what rejoicing in Heaven, over the child 
who awakens! How the Shepherds rejoice. 

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one of the good thoughts. When they know the 
Shepherd, they will follow no other. I could see 
that they were having other shepherds and other 
folds, mistaken thoughts. I could see why humanity 
was limping, writhing in pain. Men did not know 
the Truth. They were taught to accept both, that 
the loving Father had made the way for them to 
walk in, and yet, with these very teachings, they 
went for help to one of the physicians of men to try 
and get them out of what they were taught the Cre- 
ator had given to them. If their teachings were 
true, and they believed them as true, they should 
accept them, and willingly take all that is given 
them,, and not try to get rid of any part of it, for 
that would be in opposition to their God. If sick- 
ness is true, they should be sick all the time, for 
truth never changes. It is yesterday today, forever, 
the same. And if sickness is true, it would be use- 
less for them to go to an earthly physician, for he 
cannot change Truth. 

I tell you, you can keep on going to the earthly 
physicians to give you health, but you will not find 
it. Lo, Satan will bind you yet. Like the dear sis- 
ter there ; she has been to many physicians and paid 
a great deal of money, and is not a whit better. Lo, 
Satan has bound her these many years. There is 
only one way to get rid of Satan in that form. "Phy- 
sician, heal thyself." 

I tell you, God gave you health. That is one of 
your gifts. Will you accept or reject? How many 
times have you claimed that gift? Many times you 



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have said : "Oh, I feel real well today, but I scarce- 
ly dare speak of it for fear I shall suffer for it." 

But, oh, blind brethren, how many times have 
you claimed sickness? What we sow we will reap. 
Sick thoughts reap sickness; health thoughts reap 
health. 

Now, begin right away, humanity, to sow the 
health thoughts, and keep sowing until all your 
reaping will be health. Don't sow your seed, and 
then doubt, but hold on, like you did to "twice two 
is four." You never can reap anything but a 
harvest of "fours," now that you know the truth of 
it. 

You can do the same with the health harvest. 
What I have done you can do. But don't look for 
the result first. It will never come until you have 
done your work first. Then, lo and behold, it will 
be there! 

I came not to destroy the Law and the prophets, 
but to fulfill. The Law is Love. To be filled full 
of Love, is being filled full of God's Law. 

The fountain of Love is within you. If we drink 
of the water of that well, we will never thirst again ; 
and we have the chain to reach it. Good Thoughts. 

Oh, humanity! You have Moses and the com- 
mandments. What do you understand about the 
first commandment? "Thou shalt have no other 
God before me." 

You have been having many gods, and bowing 
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was an angry God, and you must appease his wrath 
by offering burnt offerings and sacrifices. How 
many long years you have been going through those 
ceremonies, and He is angry still. And you are 
claiming that Adam and Eve made a mistake, and 
that it is your inheritance. 

Oh, brethern! What ignorance! Rub that out. 
It is a lie. Adam and Eve could only live their own 
lives. They must give an account for their own 
bodies. And that is what you and I must do. 

But, oh, I have found that our rightful inherit- 
ance is what God gave us! Claim only that, and 
you will soon know for yourself if my words are not 
true. I found God is All-Love, unchangeable Love. 
Where can the anger come from? It is only the 
mistake that comes from not knowing your true les- 
son. It is the broad way, and many go in thereat, 
but it leadeth to destruction. 

I claimed my inheritance from God, and I found 
what is mine, is yours, but you will never know it 
as Truth until you work it out for yourself. God 
is no respecter of persons. 

Through false teachings you have lost sight of 
the covenant of God. You hold to the traditions of 
men, making clean the outside of pots and cups, the 
baptism of men, the fastings of men, the command- 
ments of men. 

You are in bondage. "When you know the 
Truth, the Truth will set you free." 

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childhood. They are right with you binding you, 
and will be, until you master them. The bondage 
of the unconscious early teachings, shown forth in 
the form of sin, sickness, and death, will never be 
mastered except by knowing the Truth. 

And the only way is to be willing to learn, for 
it has to be learned by every child of humanity. 
Through those false teachings you are looking to 
body for everything, believing that it contains all 
the Life the Father gave; so you are watching body 
to keep the life in it as long as possible. 

In addition to this, you were taught that this is 
a wicked body, nothing good can come from it, and 
yet it contains all the life that the Father gave you. 
Then you claim that what you put into the body 
gives you health and strength, looking to the out- 
ward. Then the teaching is to go and have the out- 
ward baptized of men, then go through the form of 
communion, eating of bread and drinking of wine 
ordained of men; trying to make man for the Sab- 
bath; changing the outward apparel, changing the 
countenance when you come to the door of the man- 
made temple, leaving all the smiles on the outside, 
saying long prayers, having many supplications, 
following faithfully the outward observances called 
religion, fulfilling the letter, as men have done for 
so many years, and yet you are not a whit better. 

Lo, Satan binds you yet. 

Why, oh, why, that longing and yearning, still 
within you, that is not satisfied, seeking for some- 
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It is because what you seek is not on the without, 
where you are searching. You have it all right 
within you. The whole kingdom is within you. 
And all the outward forms will open as foolishness 
to you when spiritually discerned. 

You ask why I stopped baptizing the brethren 
with water. Oh, my dear brethren, I passed through 
the forms and ceremonies, baptizing the outward 
with water, until the lesson dawned upon me. Oh, 
what am I doing? Can I by laying on my hands wet 
with water, give anything to my brother? God is 
the giver, and God hath given all. I am putting a 
wrong thought there, that the baptism of man is 
necessary to bring him nearer to the Father, when 
the Father is always with him. I awakened. I had 
been asleep to Truth. I found there was only 
one baptism, and that was given in the begining. 
God, the Father, gave it, "the baptism of Love," 
Life. 

I know whereof I speak. The channel through 
which I found this, was by holding on to the first 
account, the God-made creation. 



CHAPTER XI. 
TRUE COMMUNION 

N'OW the true communion is talking right with 
the Father, the Source. In Him you live, 
move, and have your being. Every time you seek, 
knock, and ask for the door of the understanding to 
open, you are drawing nigh unto God ; and the seek- 
ing, asking, knocking, is with the good thoughts ; for 
the door will open to no other. Heaven is harmony. 
No thought of discord can enter there, and that is 
your true, individual self. 

I passed through all the outward observances. I 
was faithful, for, oh, I was so hungry to find the 
true way. But those outward forms did not satisfy. 
Discord and inharmony were still there, still some- 
thing was lacking. I worked on through the stages 
of my lessons, and, oh, dear brethren, what did I 
find? The true communion was with the Father. 
Go right to Him. Keep going, until you know His 
voice, for He speaks yesterday, today, and forever 
the same. 

Oh, what light came to me! I had been going 
through the forms and ceremonies of men, when all 
was right with me. It was my birthright, right 
birth, given by the Father. 

Now, I tell you it is yours, for the Father gave it 
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the Greek, the Jew; the same life moves all, and all 
show forth the thoughts through the body. 

You say, give me what you have. It is not mine 
to give. You have all, but you will never know 
what you have until you find, as I have, the whole 
kingdom is within you; nothing left out, no baptism, 
no communion. I had it right with me all the while 
I was seeking on the outside, but I had not kept the 
Father's sayings long enough to have the answer re- 
vealed to me. If it does not come in the first month, 
or the second, or the third, don't be discouraged. 
In due season you will reap, if you faint not. Don't 
be afraid. I have passed over the way. 

Put on the whole armor of good thoughts and 
stand. 

The prize to be gained is Eternal Life, being for 
tified with the knowledge of your dominion. Eternal 
Life; to know God is Eternal Life. 

I know whereof I speak. You will know whether 
the baptism be of John or God, whether the true 
communion is with men or God. 

There is but one that will be lost, the son of per- 
dition. Oh, brethren, when the light reveals to you 
who he is, the thoughts of envy, jealousy, malice, 
backbiting, fornication, adultery, murder, sin, sick- 
ness, death — destroyed by letting the True Ones 
reign, love, joy, peace, gentleness, kindness, health, 
strength, happiness, life, heaven, God, then the son 
of perdition will be lost. Then you will do unto 
others as you would have others do unto you. 



CHAPTER XII. 
CONTINUING FAITHFUL 

WHEN YOU mastered the mistakes in your 
school lessons, they were gone. And it is 
the same in this lesson. At first you cannot believe 
they are mistakes, they have been claimed so long 
as real, and real they are to you until mastered. 
Find whether they come from God or man. All 
God has made is good. Have you been claiming 
only from his creation? Ask yourself this question : 

Is sickness good? How quickly you will say, No. 
Have you been trying to master it? Yes. How? 
By going to the earthly physicians. Can they re- 
move the cause? Can they give you medicine that 
that will remove your thoughts? 

I tell you the mistake comes first in thoughts, and 
it must be mastered through that channel. Now 
stop claiming sickness as real, for there is nothing 
real except what God made and gave. God gave 
health. Will we accept or reject it? We cannot 
serve two masters. 

Oh, brethern ! When we have served health one- 
quarter as long as we have served sickness, what 
will we show forth? Eyes have not seen, nor ears 
heard the glories the Father hath given to His chil- 
dren. When you stop thinking sickness, it will be 
lost, will die for want of food, for there is no cre- 
ator but man to feed that thought. But, whether you 
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their Creator is God. And God has given them to 
us, but it lies with ourselves whether we will accept 
or reject. 

God never made a mistake in his creation for 
man to mend. We have not been taught our right 
birth. We have divided the house, one for this 
world, and one for another. We have claimed this as 
earthly, and have gone to the earthly physician, 
and he has given us of this earthly, and we reap 
corruption. Now, we ask them what ails us. They 
give us a claim, we go away, hugging that claim, 
saying, we have it, that is their verdict. Then we 
work faithfully, trying to get rid of it in our way of 
doing; temporary relief comes. But, oh, they can 
give nothing to fortify your mind, so that the mis- 
take is gone forever, any more than can the teach- 
ers who preach, who say, Come and learn the lesson 
how to save the soul from sin. They tell us we are 
born in sin and iniquity, but we must try and pray 
the Father to give us a change of heart. Now, if 
they believe what they teach is Truth, why are they 
begging the Father to change their hearts? For if 
they are born in sin and iniquity and that is Truth 
it cannot change; it will go on through eternity. 
If they think God can change them from that condi- 
tion, it is claiming He knows good from evil, and 
they are sending forth a prayer like this: Suppose, 
in a lesson in mathematics, the teacher would say, 
Children, you are bom with the mistakes in you, 
but you can get down on your knees and pray to the 
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much would we know of mathematics today? Or, 
if the teacher would tell the children they might 
work at those lessons as much as they cared to, but 
they would get no answer until they would die and 
go to the next world? 

Oh, brethern! What does the true principle of 
mathematics know of the mistakes? And where 
are the mistakes when the right answer is found? 
Of no account, not real, gone, no matter how real 
they seemed before they found the way into the an- 
swer. And we did not need to pray, we needed to 
work, to find the answer. Work out your own sal- 
vation. When the true way in this lesson opens to 
you, you will see that the mistakes are just as un- 
real. 

But, with all the knowledge those teachers have 
of the lesson of life, what do they say? Never 
mind about your souls. God will take care of your 
souls. But you must look after your bodies. And 
what are those bodies showing forth? They go 
about, with tired, worn-out bodies through which to 
express their great soul-saving lesson, for body re- 
sponds to thought. If God is equal to the saving of 
souls. He is certainly equal to the saving of bodies. 

Oh, brethren! God has given you ALL. All of 
the Good is yours. It is for you to let go of the mis- 
takes, and claims the All, When you have claimed 
just long enough, the result will be right there, with 
you, waiting. The true answer is there all the time. 
But I can tell you that you are free to go on and on 
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the day of your salvation. The time will come 
when the mistakes will be such a burden to you 
that you will have to find the way out. For that is 
the mission of every child of humanity, to find the 
Father's house, Heaven. 

There are many mansions in the Father's house. 
Those who finish the lesson in this mansion, will 
find a place in the next prepared from the beginning 
for those who master here. Then there are man- 
sions for those who have not mastered, but have 
been mastered by death, the last enemy. They will 
find out their mistakes ; the way will be harder, for 
they will have to become as a child and go back into 
the baby class and learn the lesson; for no imper- 
fection can enter the perfect. Oh, brethren, heed 
what I tell you, for I know whereof I speak. 

"Oh, now, we know you as a blasphemer. You 
make yourself equal with God. We know you as 
Jesus, the son of Joseph and Mary, and one who 
has very little book learning." 

Did Joseph and Mary give me life? The Father 
of Joseph and Mary, of you, yourself, is Life. 
Without life we would not need the body. You are 
looking at the body, bound by the teachings of men. 
I tell you. Go to the Source, and be taught. You 
are looking to the education of men to save you. 
How can they save you from mistakes, if they are 
living in them? How can a brother tell a brother 
to cast the mote out of his eye when he has a beam 
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Call no man Father on earth. I mean in this 
sense, that they are the Source of Life. There is 
but one Source, the Omnipotent, Omniscient, Om- 
nipresent. 

Oh, dear brethren, this is the secret for us, each 
and all, to find, and, oh, how simple when under- 
stood — and whosoever seeks shall find. 

But each must do his own seeking, and not 
through another, for Good is no respecter of per- 
sons. We have been going, lo, here and, lo, there, 
when all the time the Source was right within. 

Again, I say, Watch your thoughts. Stand por- 
ter at the door of your thoughts, until you master 
them. Can another do that work for you? No 
matter what amount of money you pay, another 
cannot do that work for you. It is "Without 
money and without price." 

But the way has been hidden so long under false 
teachings that it takes work to overcome the false. 
And it is individual work. Work out your own sal- 
vation. It is within you. If another tells you he 
can do it for you, he is a deceiver. If others tell 
you that you can find Truth only through them, 
there is no Truth in them. If they point you to the 
Father, and tell you He is your All, they are telling 
the truth, for God is no respecter of persons. But 
you will never know this until you find it for your- 
self. It is your own work. 

But we can encourage each other. Where two or 
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salvation, there the Father is, right with them. That 
is bearing one another's burdens, and thus fulfilling 
the Law of Love. 

Hold fast to the I AM of you; it is God-given, 
not man-made. Oh, the only charge I give unto 
you is, Be faithful! Be faithful to the words I have 
given you. They bring their rev/ard, without money, 
and without price. For they are given us right 
from th6 Source, God, and no one else can be faith- 
ful for us. 

Oh, believe me, for I have worked it out. If you 
don't believe the words, believe for the works you 
have seen. Faith without works is dead. Oh, then, 
be willing to try; for when you have mastered the 
least, then you will know the faith that masters the 
greater. If you have faith "as a grain of mustard 
seed," you have a good start. 



CHAPTER XIII. 
THE FINAL VICTORY 

N^O greater love can one show another than by 
being willing to lay down his life for that 
other. Now, that is what I am willing to do — lay 
down the thought that life is finite, shut up in this 
body; that we are born in sin and iniquity; that in 
this body, we are and can only be sinners. But I 
was willing to pioneer, to find, and I found that this 
doctrine is not Truth. Nov.^, once for all, I will go 
through the whole problem, and show forth its re- 
sults publicly, so you will be encouraged, and have 
a record of one who mastered the whole right here 
in this world, and in this body, and who tells you, 
"What I have done, you can do," 

Let the dead past bury its dead ! You are in the 
ISiow. Learn to live in the Now. I have done all 
I can. I have come out publicly, and pointed the 
way to you. You must be willing to walk in that 
way. 

Destroy this temple, this body, and in three days 
J will, with the lesson I have mastered — that Life 
is greater. Life is All — show you this same temple. 
Take all the blood out of it. It is not the blood 
that gives Life. The blood comes from the same 
Source as Life. "Out of one blood made He all 
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Can you, by destroying the visible, destroy the 
invisible? 

Oh, humanity! A secret for you to know is right 
with you now, but no one except the Father can 
reveal it to you. You are His Child ; but you are a 
stranger to Him. Get acquainted with Him as I 
did, by calling upon Him daily; by thanking Him 
for life, health, strength, and all that He hath given. 
At first, I was a stranger, but only because of false 
teachings; but the false teachings will keep us out 
of our rightful inheritance as long as we entertain 
them. 

Hold fast to the good. There is your true "fast- 
ing." And as you fast, be of cheerful countenance. 
Anoint thy head and wash thy face. Be ye not as 
the hypocrites of a sad countenance, for they dis- 
figure their faces that they may appear unto men 
to fast. They have their reward. See that thou 
appear not unto men to fast, but uMo thy Father, 
which seeth in secret; and our Father which seeth 
in secret, will reward thee openly. 

Let not thy left hand know what thy right hand 
doeth. 

"Well, what shall we do if thou takest away all? 
Give us some words to speak." 

Well, I will give you some true words ; but when 
you repeat them, think upon the words I have spo- 
ken, that you are not communing with Father away 
off in Heaven, but right with you and right within 
you, and that He has given you all. Now, I will 
give you true words: 



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Our Father, who art in Heaven, 

Hallowed be thy name. 

Thy kingdom come, 
Thy will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven. 

Thou givest us this day our daily bread. 

Our sins are forgiven when we forgive others. 

We will overcome temptation and the error will 
be destroyed. 

For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and 
the glory, 

Forever and forever. Amen. 

Now, you say, what I have done for others I can 
do for myself. Now, destroy this body. I will 
show you. You cannot put the greater inside the 
lesser. Spirit is greater than body. Spirit is Life. 

I have overcome the world's opinion that the 
body contains All of Spirit. I have overcome the 
devil's wrong thinking — sin, sickness, death. I have 
been born again, born of God. What glad tidings 
I can give you! The same tidings that caused the 
rejoicing among the "shepherds," Good Thoughts. 
They came to their own, and their own received 
them. 

"Peace on earth. Good will to men!" 

This is what I leave with you, for no one can 
take it away. It is the Father's gift to His children. 
If it is hidden from you, it is only by wrong think- 
ing. Listen to the true message : — 

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And, now, I have gone through the last problem, 
have overcome the "last enemy." Victory over 
death! Yet you doubt; and say, Show us the power 
that did it. Oh, doubting Thomas! Blessed are 
those who have not seen, and yet believe. 

No more signs will be given unto you, but do the 
work, and the signs will follow. 

I have fought a good fight. I have won the re- 
ward. Now I go to the Father to do the work He 
has for me in the next mansion. 

Be of good cheer. Be faithful in the Way which 
I have pointed out to you. Watch your thoughts. 
Again, I say. Watch, lest ye enter into temptation. 

My last charge — Be ye faithful. We will meet 
again. 



PAUL'S TESTIMONY. 

44 T A FELLOW worker, came into the knowl- 

X^ edge of Truth by following the teachings of 
Jesus. I Y/as willing to let the same mind be in me 
that he let be in him — Immortal Mind. I held to 
the words he spoke, and I found them true. 

Let the light be turned in upon the room you have 
been sitting in darkness for the space of an hour. 
Are you not blinded for awhile? You could see 
nothing until you gradually opened your eyes. So 
with me. I was bound in the darkness — ignorance 
of the past, forms, ceremonies ; thinking the church 
that showed the largest membership was the strong- 
est, and all others wrong and we were right; think- 
ing in unity, organizations were the strength. I 
was on my way to crucify a little band who were un- 
folding to the teachings of Jesus. 

In God is strength. When you are in God you 
are in strength. 

A thought came to me. A voice spoke loudly 
(we call it the voice of conscience; get acquainted 
with it ; you will find it the voice of God ) : 

"Paul, what are you doing? Going forth to act 
out those murder thoughts? Do you not know there 
is nothing conquers but Love? Is it Love you are 
showing forth? Conquer self first, Paul, before you 
try to conquer others. Greater is he that conquereth 
self than he that taketh a city. Can you teach an- 
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At that time I was working for Church, the tem- 
ple built with hands, and whose foundation was 
men-made creeds and ceremonies, believing the 
Church that had the largest membership was show- 
ing greater works of God. I was filled with rage 
to think where a few were gathered together they 
were showing forth greater fruits than the great 
Church I belonged to. 

So persecute them, persecute them, was the 
thought my religion advised me to do. I was obey- 
ing, when the inner self spoke: "Paul, Paul, why 
persecute others? Have they not rights of their 
own? Hate only brings forth hate. Fear is hate; 
Love only conquers." 

How I entertained those words and worked 
bravely in overcoming. 

I found God has not given us the spirit of fear, 
but of power and of love and of sound mind. 

Trust in God, who giveth us richly all things to 
enjoy. Hold fast the form of sound words, who 
will have all men to be saved and to come unto the 
knowledge of truth. 

I took the record of the First Creation as mine, 
and now I can say unto you, as Jesus did: Leave 
those things of the past; press forward into the 
light; though you have been bound by all manner 
of false teachings, made many mistakes, blot them 
out. 

Now is the accepted time. I had to work out my 
own salvation. I also had like passions as you, but 
I turned from them unto the living God, who made 



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Heaven and earth, the sea and all things that are 
therein. 

Nevertheless He left not Himself without wit- 
ness, in that He did good, and gave us rain from 
Heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with 
food and gladness, and we declare unto you glad 
tidings, how that the promise that was made unto 
the fathers in times past was the same that Jesus 
fulfilled — God's promise. 

"I will take care of thee if thou wilt trust in 
me." Jesus fulfilled the whole, showing that mas- 
tering is Life ; showing for you and me greater love 
hath no man than this, that he is willing to go 
through the whole lesson to encourage you and me 
to do the same. 

Oh, brethern, I see now how far away from God 
we were, following sayings and traditions of the 
past, not knowing All is ours, and it is not what we 
do to the outward that bringeth the light; it is all in 
us; we must work it out. Men-made doctrine: 
"Why tempt ye God to put a yoke upon the neck of 
the learners, which neither our fathers nor we are 
able to bear?" I tell you I find in being faithful 
to the words Jesus spoke — "the yoke is easy, and 
the burden is light." 

I began by claiming the Father hath given all in 
the beginning. Every good and every perfect gift 
Cometh from the Father of Light, in whom there is 
no variableness nor shadow of changing — the same 
yesterday, today and forever the same. 

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and held to the words daily. I found an altar with 
this inscription, "To the unknown God. Whom 
therefore, ye ignorantly worship, Him declare I 
unto you. God who made the world and all things 
therein; seeing that He is Lord of Heaven and 
Earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands; 
neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though 
He needed anything; seeing He giveth to all Life 
and breath, and all things; and hath made of one 
blood all nations to dwell on the face of the earth, 
and hath determined the time before appointed, 
and the bounds of their habitation; that they should 
seek the Lord, if happily they might feel after Him 
and find Him, though he be not far away from 
every one of us ; for in Him we live and move, and 
have our being; for we are his offspring. Let not 
mistakes reign in your body, that ye should obey it 
in the lusts thereof; neither yield ye your members 
as instruments of unrighteousness unto mistakes; 
but yield yourselves unto God, as those who are 
alive from the dead, and your instruments of right- 
eousness unto God ; for Sin shall have no more do- 
minion over you. Know ye not, that to whom ye 
yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye 
are to whom ye obey, whether of mistakes, sin unto 
death or of obedience unto righteousness? The 
wages of sin, mistakes, is death; but the way of 
Truth— Life." 

Oh, brethern, when the light opened to me, it 
showed how blind we had been to custom, form and 
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them and judged those who do not conform to them. 
When the lesson dawned more fully upon me, how 
Jesus had been working day by day to find the true 
way, and while standing in the men-made pulpit 
reading the words the brother Isaiah had found, 
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he 
hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the 
poor; He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, 
to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering 
of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that 
are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the 
Lord." How the result of his daily labor in 
holding on to the good words dawned upon 
him in this answer: This day is this Scripture ful- 
filled in your ears.'^ He was so overwhelmed with 
the glory of the Light he sat down in that pulpit and 
handed the book to the minister. Then he arose, 
and the words of Truth flowed out, and for the 
space of an hour they were spellbound with the 
words. The kingdom of Heaven is within you now, 
this moment; now you are God's children, but it has 
been hidden from us through the teachings of a 
false Creation. Never will you find Truth through 
outward forms and ceremonies, but through the 
inward channel of good thoughts. 

Then they began to think what he had done — 
broken one of their customs that had been handed 
down from the past. He, the son of Joseph and 
Mary, to sit down in the pulpit. Only the elder 
ministers did that; the younger stood. Then they 
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all good, when see what you have done. Then they 
led him to the brow of the hill to cast him down 
headlong, but the Father took care of him. 

Oh, brethren, when it dawned upon me, with all 
their years of observing forms and ceremony, called 
religion, there was murder thoughts in their hearts. 
I could see where I was blinded with the same ig- 
norance. No wonder Jesus said, "It is not what 
goeth unto a man that def ileth him it is that which 
Cometh out." You see the outside of the platter 
you make clean, dress up the outward for the form 
and ceremony, when inside is Envy, Jealousy, Mur- 
der, showing forth right in their temple they had 
built to worship God in. 

IV chapter of Luke: Jesus found his body was 
the Temple, and how to cleanse his thoughts from 
all ignorance. Envy, Jealousy, Malice, Backbiting, 
Fornication, Adultery, Murder, then the outside 
would never show forth Sin, Sickness, Death. But 
as long as they worshipped in the men-made temple 
their thoughts would be to clothe the outside well, 
and diey would be a respecter of person. God is no 
respecter of person. 

The more Jesus understood of good the more 
lowly he became. Always his word of greeting, "I 
am your brother." Just the simple name Jesus, and 
never did he stand even on a box higher than his 
brethren after his lesson dawned upon him. "I am 
your brother," and he proved it in thought, word 
and deed. He lived the Brotherhood of man. When 
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Stand the Fatherhood of God — "I thank thee, oh 
Father, It is hidden from the wise and revealed unto 
babes." 

When I was in bondage to the outward observ- 
ances, the baptism of men, fasting of men, com- 
munion of men, I condemned those who did not ob- 
serve them. When the light came to me, God that 
made the world and all things therein, seeing that 
He is Lord of Heaven and earth, dwelleth not in 
temples made with hands. Omnipotent; neither is 
worshipped with men's hands. As though He 
needed anything, seeing He giveth to all Life and 
breath and all things; and hath made of one blood 
all nations to dwell upon earth. When Jesus arose 
to tell them this lesson, see what they were going 
to do — throw him headlong over the precipice. 
Why? He had failed to observe one of their cus- 
toms, called religion. He told them their inherit- 
ance was from God. So long they had claimed their 
inheritance from Adam and Eve. Born in sin and 
iniquity, they were strangers to their true birth. 

Oh, brethren, I was bound in the same thoughts, 
looking to the organizations of men, to be stronger 
than the oneness of God. 

Where could protection come from greater than 
came to Jesus, knowing his relation to the Father? 
And that came to him from persistent, faithful, 
everyday work, claiming his birthright his right 
birth — bom of God. In time of trial, the testing 
time, there was the Almighty, Omnipotent, Omnis- 
cient, Omnipresent Father. The gift of God is 



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eternal life through Christ (Truth) our Law. 

Read the VII chapter of Romans. I give you as 
clearly as I can of the struggles of the work with 
the two I Ams, the bondage I had been held in for 
many years to the claiming of the Creation of the 
second chapter of Genesis. The twenty- fourth and 
twenty-fifth verses of the same chapter gives the 
answer of how I found as Jesus did. 

For if ye live in the thought, body is greater than 
spirit, ye shall die ; but if ye live after the spirit, ye 
shall live. For as many as are led by the spirit of 
Good, they are the 50^5 of God. 

If God be for us, who can be against us? 

I can see where I made a mistake that bound me 
for such a long time. It was a thorn in my flesh. 
I said when they arrested me: "I stand at Caesar's 
judgment seat, where I ought to be judged." I 
had not yet learned the lesson Jesus had — "Judge 
not, for men judge from outward appearances; 
there is only one Judge and that is God." 

Oh, those words, "I appeal to Caesar!" 

Jesus passed through the same lesson, when they 
were trying in all manner of ways to have him ap- 
peal to men-made laws. The wise men in their own 
estimation, the lawyers, said, "Oh, let us have a 
chance to question him. Why, we will in a few 
moments get him tangled up." 

Oh, the knowledge of being fortified with Truth. 
One of the grandest sermons he had lived showed 
forth in his words. The lawyers recognized Cae- 
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So there was an uprising among the people. 
They claimed they were imposed upon by taxation. 
So the lawyer thought if Jesus decided with the 
people they could then complain to Caesar; if he 
decided with Caesar, then the people would be 
against him. Hear the words of the lawyer: "To 
whom shall we render the tribute money?" The 
greatest, the highest question they could ask. 

Oh, hear the answer; "Render unto Caesar the 
things that are Caesar's, but render unto God the 
things that are God's." 

Oh, the justness of that answer! 

What belonged to Caesar? The inscription, 
Give it to him, what remains? What God made, the 
solid money. What did it remove? Just that 
which was stamped on by men. 

Oh, my brethren, how the meaning of those 
words came to me : Render to Error the things that 
belong to Error, but render to God the things that 
belong to God. 

When you give to the Good, what belongs to 
Good, and Error what belongs to Error, Error will 
be as Caesar's inscription, only stamped upon. Re- 
move it what God made remains. I have worked 
out of mistakes; that is why I can say unto you, 
Hold fast to good, and good will never leave nor 
forsake you. 

Render, therefore, to all their dues; tribute to 
whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear 
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anything, but to love one another; for he that lov- 
eth another hath fulfilled the law. 

When Jesus spoke these words they judged him 
from the wisdom of the world. They had received 
their knowledge from book learning; so they said, 
"Where did you get your wisdom? You are a man 
of very little learning." 

So when I master the same lesson and point to 
them the way, they cry: 

"Paul, too much learning hath made thee mad." 

Oh, ignorance, taught of men! Oh, wisdom, 
taught of God! "He is not alone who is where God 
is, and God is everywhere." Oh, brethren, I know 
this now as truth. 

I say, thank God, I can render to the false teach- 
ings all that belong to them. Thank God I can hold 
fast to that which the world cannot give, nor the 
world take away. Oh, my brethren, thank God and 
take courage. 

Render to God our true selves. 

Though I speak with the tongue of men and of 
angels, and am not fortified with the Dominion God 
gave me, I am, as sounding brass, or a tinkling 
cyn&al. 

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and un- 
derstand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and 
though I have all faith, so that I could remove 
mountains, and am not fortified with the dominion 
God gave me, I am nothing. 

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the 
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am not fortified with the dominion God gave me, 
it profiteth nothing. 

Being fortified with this knowledge through all 
trials, you are kind, envieth not, vaunteth not itself, 
is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, 
seeketh not its own, is not provoked, thinketh no 
evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the 
Truth. Beareth all things, believeth all things, en- 
dureth all things, for they only know the good. 
When you are fortified with the knowledge of your 
dominion it never faileth; but whether there be pro- 
phecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, 
they shall cease; whether there be knowledge of 
men, it shall vanish away. God's words endureth 
forever, and they are yours; He gave them. 

Oh, brethren, will you fortify yourself with 
them? For with the knowledge of men, we prophesy 
in part, but when that which is perfect is come, then 
that which is in part is done away. 

When I began to turn to the true birth, to be born 
again I became a child; "Except ye become as a 
little child ye cannot enter God's Kingdom." I was 
willing to speak as a child ; understand as a child ; 
I thought as a child; but when I became a man 
I did not put away the childish things, like when 
we were children learning our alphabet, when we 
were grown we did not put them away; we made 
greater use of them. 

At first we see through a glass darkly, like the 
child in school, lessons all in the dark; by and by 
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.Now in all these things we are conquerors, 
through Him that loved us. 

Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor perse- 
cutions, nor powers, nor things present, nor things 
to come, nor heights, nor depth, shall be able to 
separate us from the love of God. For we are His 
Heirs. And to separate us from Him it would have 
to be a greater power than He. You can shut Him 
out of your consciousness with ignorance, yet God 
reigns. You can shut the sunlight out of your 
homes, yet the sun shines. My testimony to you, 
dear reader, he fortified with the knowledge of the 
dominion God gave you, and you will find it is 
Eternal Life. It is without money and price, freely 
given by the Father. Freely receive. 

Work out your own salvation from your true in- 
heritance. God is life, the giver of all good. A 
charge to give I have — be faithful. 



BE YE TEMPERATE 

BE YE temperate in all things." 
What is it to be temperate? To know 
Truth. How will we show it forth? By perform- 
ing not in one thing, but in all things. 

To be temperate in Health is to master sickness. 

To be temperate in Kindness, is to master Un- 
kindness. 

We have dwelt in the thoughts of intemperance 
until the body performs in words and deeds. Why? 
We are finding, as Jesus, the root of one of the 
greatest of intemperances is prejudice. 

Not a great many years ago one of the greatest 
temperance lectures (as the world called) passed 
through the city in which I live. She was to give 
three lectures in one day. As I lived near the church 
where she would speak, I was asked if she might 
come and rest and take dinner at my house. I said 
certainly. She came. I went forward to help re- 
move her wraps. 

"Oh, no, my dear; I must rest a few moments 
until I get accustomed to the change of air in the 
room." 

I waited for the word of command. It came. I 
removed one wrap, when lo, there was another. 

"Oh, don't remove that; I would surely take 
cold. Oh, I am so weary." 

"Would you like to lie down?" 

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We went to dinner. She sat down, arose imme- 
diately with an expression of fear showing forth 
in both manner and voice. 

"Would you be so kind as to see if all windows 
and doors are closed? I am so afraid of a draft. 
My physicians forbid my coming to this coast, on 
account of the dampness, for I am only recovering 
from pneumonia." 

She was assured that all was safe, so she began 
the meal. 

How hard I had to hold to the lesson I had been 
practicing for years — "Wisdom ripens into silence" 
— for I did want to say, "How can a brother tell a 
brother to cast the mote out of his eye when he 
hath a beam within his own?" It was intemperance 
she was showing forth, not temperance. 

She could give forth statistics with rapidity, tell- 
ing of the thousands who had met death from drink, 
yet she had the same lesson to learn that the brother 
who Was in bondage to drink. Both have to master 
fear. See how she filled God's pure air with things 
that make unto death. How her mind was filled 
with worry, fret, and it was showing forth in body. 
Body responds to thought. I had compassion for 
her, knowing what she had to conquer of intem- 
perance. 

What she claimed to be fighting for the help of 
others could not take their body any farther away 
than the bondage she was showing forth could take 
hers. Both swallowed up in death. If she had 
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in all things," she would have been fortified with 
the knowledge to reach out the helping hand to the 
brother in bondage, and point the way out. 

It is in educating the thought. It is thought 
moves the body to drink. 

It was thought moved her body to drink the cup 
of fear. When we learn to drink of the cup Jesus 
drank of (and we have his word that we shall drink 
of the same cup he drank of before we master our 
lesson) then we will have no intemperance lec- 
turers. They will be swallowed up in temperance. 
They will have mastered the beam in their own eye, 
and can see clearly to point the way to the brother 
to remove the mote from within his eye. 

How well Jesus understood his lesson. Thirty 
years overcoming, coming over. He stood forth 
performing his lesson, though they called him a 
winebibber, because he did not lecture intemper- 
ance. Right in the midst of the railings of public 
oninion, who scoifed and said he is a crank, a blas- 
phemer, he associates with sinners, he stood un- 
moved, he knew his lesson: 

When we follow and live those teachings, the 
same results will follow. They have to, "for every 
seed bringeth forth of its kind." Every thought 
bringeth forth of its kind. Truth is the same yes- 
terday, today and forever. Truth cannot change. 
God is Truth. 

We have not known Truth. We are trying to be 
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One who is ignorant of mastery over their temper 
is intemperate in anger. 

It came first in thought, then in word, then in 
deed. "Resist not evil" means turn from the 
thoughts which produce mistaken, evil results, and 
cultivate the good. 

"Mortal must be swallowed up in Immortal^ 

They at that time, as well as many of the present, 
are so bound in the doctrine of men, are not willing 
to try the way he pointed out. Thank God, there 
are many who are brave enough to give the teach- 
ings a trial, and they are finding them true. 

They are the words of God. When we under- 
stand how to live them, we will know the meaning, 
"Be ye temperate in all things.'" Then there is no 
more condemnation against the brother who is in- 
temperate in a few things. 

When Jesus stood before Pilate, he had his lesson 
mastered, every thought conquered. 

Pilate said unto Jesus, "What is Truth?" 

Oh, ignorance, thinkest thou that in thy wisdom 
you could understand in one answer what the 
brother who stood before you had been working 
thirty years in thought, word and deed? 

What was the answer Jesus gave? Silence. 

Only those who have become conquerors in the 
same way can be inspired with the answer — silence. 

What did ignorance show forth through Pilate 
at the answer Jesus gave? Intemperance, anger. 

Speakest thou not to me; knowest thou not I have 
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Oh, the same ignorance today. 

Jesus said, thou couldst have no power against 
me, except it were given thee from above. 

He only acknowledged the good. Only the good 
is real. 

"Eyes to see, and ears to hear, but ye neither see 
nor hear." Why? Because we have been taught 
the only sight is in these body eyes, and the hearing 
in these body ears. Go back to the schoolroom, 
dear reader. Did you not have to cover these eyes 
and ears to open the true ones to the knowledge of 
understanding your lessons? So it is in this, the 
greatest of all lessons, that will take us into Heaven. 

We must close these eyes and ears to the doctrines 
and opinions of the old teaching, born in sin and 
iniquity, for humanity has been intemperate in these 
doctrines for ages. 

What has it brought them? Whoever is showing 
forth sickness in any form, is intemperate. Whoever 
is showing forth worry is intemperate. Whoever is 
showing forth one jot or tittle of envy, jealousy, 
malice, backbiting, fornication, adultery, murder, 
in thought, they are showing forth intemperance of 
sin, sickness, death. All that makes Jesus life dif- 
ferent from ours, he mastered error thinking, show- 
ing forth in a perfect life. He said, "Go thou and 
do likewise." 

Dear reader, what worlds of knowledge is there 
in the meaning of those words Jesus spoke to James 
and John, the sons of Zebidee? The same meaning 
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Life. "Spiritual things must be spiritually dis- 
cerned." Now spirit means Life. The things of 
life must be discerned through the thoughts of life. 

The members of Spirit, or the thoughts of Spirit, 
are Health, Strength, Happiness, Joy, Peace, Con- 
tentment, Love. 

This is the mastery Jesus pointed James and John 
to when they beseeched him to give it to them. 
"It is not mine to give," but it comes from the 
Father and is given to them who are prepared to re- 
ceive — those who work out the lesson. 

The old doctrine of men teaches Jesus gives this 
power to men. 

Who is right, their doctrine or Jesus' word? 

When James' and John's request was given him, 
he replied, "Fe know not what ye ask; can ye 
drink of the cup that / drank of, and be baptized 
with the baptism that / am baptized with?" 

Their answer, "^^e can.'' 

His answer, "Ye shall indeed drink of the cup 
that I drink of; and with the baptism that / am 
baptized withal shall ye be baptized. 

"But to sit on my right hand and on my left hand 
is not mine to give ; but it shall be given to them who 
are prepared." 

Just think how different his words from the 
teachings we were taught. 

Jesus could do the works of God in this world, 
but we cannot. 

Try the way he pointed out and see what works 
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Drinking of the cup means holding on to the good 
until error is mastered. The baptism, the under- 
standing opened to. There is only good in God's 
Creation. 

What would we think of the mothers today if 
they went to the schoolroom and gave the same kind 
of a request to the teacher in that line as the mother 
gave to Jesus in the line he was mastering — 
"Let my children sit one on thy right hand and the 
other on thy left, in the knowledge thou hast?" 

We can see plainly in that direction the only way 
would be for the children to drink of the same cup, 
and be baptized with the same baptism. How? By 
beginning in the primary and work up. 

Could Jesus come again today, would he find 
things changed? 

Is not humanity today begging and praying with 
the same request as the mother of James and John, 
expecting to gain Heaven in another world, as lean- 
ers, not learners? 

"Come unto me and learn." "The words I speak 
are Spirit Life." 

The words are here today for you and me to 
speak. Jesus could not take them away, for they 
are God's words. 

"Be ye perfect, even as the Principle is Perfect." 

Work out of the mistakes into the true answers. 

"Death is swallowed up in victory." "Mortal 
swallowed up in immortal." 

Jesus taught, "What / have done you can do" 

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take him at his word. They did not understand 
his teachings. They claim all for Jesus, and noth- 
ing for us. Jesus claimed for all alike. "It is with- 
in you; learn to work it out." 

Teachers in school will tell their pupils, in that 
line : "You have the same privilege as I have ; take 
these words and work them out." 

We were taught wicked world, wicked body, and 
with the same lips claim God made both. Let go 
of the wicked and hold to the good, and see what 
you will find. "You cannot serve two masters." 

We were taught to claim God as a giver and 
taker; giver of a little life shut up in this body, and 
in a little time he will take that life and let the body 
perish. What intemperance when we find the truth! 

"God is the giver of all good." God is life, the 
same yesterday, today, and forever, everywhere, 
"omnipresent." How can we be separated from Him 
if he is life and everywhere? 

Only by our ignorance of not knowing God as 
All Life. 

It is a lesson, and we have to become master of 
it, the same as "twice two is four." If we did not 
know for ourselves, we would be in ignorance of 
that simple little lesson. 

"Be still and know that I am God." 

Conditions in the lessons of life to be fulfilled 
as in our school day lessons: Still the body; get the 
thinker to work on the right words, then the under- 
standing will come forth to be expressed through 
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Could the apple tree show forth its fruits if it 
had no body? Could you and I express the fruits 
of life — kindness, health, strength, etc. — if we had 
no body? 

Oh, humanity, the old orthodox teachings gave 
more thought to the body than some of the teach- 
ings of today. Orthodoxy taught, "You have a 
body, but it is wicked ; it can live on this earth three 
score years and ten." 

Whose teachings are those today to deny the body 
as a mortal mind product, yet treat that body to 
show forth one of God's fruit — ^health? Would we 
ever have found twice two is four if we had not 
claimed the true words? The Creator knew what 
he wanted. So he made expressions — bodies to 
manifest his Creation, bodies of trees, bodies of an- 
imals; the hightest of all, "The Temple of God ye 
are." 

What! deny the work of God? Life is Creator, 
created your body. Do not deny the works of God, 
but do as Jesus did — "Learn to cleanse^ it from all 
ignorant thoughts. Then see what this body will be 
tlie expression of — the things of God, a body of 
light. How could you express "twice two is four" 
if you did not have an outward expression? Now 
the outward did not give you the answer. You had 
to still the body, get the thinker going into the 
thought realm. Then when you were fortified with 
the knowledge of the truth — four — you expresstd it 
openly through the body. "The visible showeth 
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"When thou prayest studiest thy lesson; enter 
into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, 
pray to thy Father in secret; and thy Father who 
seeth in secret will reward thee openly T 

We took our little lesson, "twice two is four," 
entered into our closet with it and talked to the 
Principle back of it, and we were rewarded with 
four. Then we expressed it openly. 

How could life express itself openly without ex- 
pressions — Body? How could Body express itself 
openly without Life? 

"Those whom God hath joined together let not 
men put asunder." 

Do not deny your body. Redeem it; resurrect 
it. As Jesus taught, fill it with only the thoughts of 
good. Body responds to thought. God made it 
to respond to His words, first in thought, then in 
words, then in deeds. 

God pronounced His works good. If you shut 
out God's works by denying this body it will be 
shut out of this world sooner than the old teachings, 
who claim wicked body, but you can roam this 
world "three score years and ten." 

Oh, humanity, find Truth. Good is truth. And 
let it learn you about this wonderful temple, the 
body, the Tabernacle of God. Do not deny life and 
sensation in body. If there were none it would be 
a dead body. 

Who wants a dead body? Now when you find 
body is not the Source of Life and Sensation, but 
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Life is source. Creator formed an expression, 
your body, to express the sensations of only the 
good life in the beginning your body today finds 
the way to express only Life, Sensation through 
the body. 

What shall destroy it? 

Does life destroy its work? 

"Seek and ye shall find." 

But seek of God, the Source, Life good thoughts, 
the seed's body, the Tree; health, happiness, kind- 
ness, joy, peace, contentment, love, the Fruits ; Life, 
the Grower, Omnipresent. 

"Be ye temperate in all things." 



3— LIGHT 

WHY Stand ye here gazing into the sky? Look 
in all directions, see those who have per- 
severed by patiently pushing forward. Did 
Edison stand gazing and wondering? No, he in- 
vestigated, then appropriated the power; he did not 
make it. It was from the beginning. Did the 
power, Principle, choose Edison from all the rest 
of mankind, and say: "You are my only beloved 
son in whom I am well pleased, and I will give 
unto you the secret?" No, if Edison had not 
worked, he never could have accomplished what 
he has done, and as he admits, it is only in its in- 
fancy. How many long hours, while we were 
sleeping, was he buried in his work. He tells not 
of the struggles but of the results. Now, if Edison 
had said to humanity, "I have found the way, the 
truth, and the life into electricity, and it is given 
only to myself" and he had kept it and shut it up 
within himself, how much benefit would he have 
derived or how much would humanity have been 
benefited? 

Now, let us take the telephone: if Edison had 
given these sayings to the world: "I have found a 
wonderful secret; I can stand at one end of the 
secret, and talk miles away; they will not see my 
person, nor I theirs, yet we will recognize our 
voices." What if he had kept the secret to himself 
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have heard him? Now, you see, there would have 
to be some one at the other end of the line to hear, 
or he would be talking into space. What good 
would his sleepless nights have been? See with 
what fear and trembling and doubt we approached 
the telephone the first time. Did we have faith in 
his words and work? Were we certain that what 
he had given forth was the truth? No, not until 
we had tried it for ourselves; we were strangers to 
it. We had to entertain it, to become acquainted 
with it. See today all over the land how familiar 
humanity is with the telephone, and they are won- 
dering why it had not been discovered before. It 
took the patience and perseverance of an Edison to 
v/ork it out. If he had only had faith that there 
was something of that kind in the world and had 
not put that faith into practice, would we see such 
great results today? And yet his faith in the be- 
ginning must have been as small as a grain of mus- 
tard seed. If he had sat down and groaned, and 
begged, and prayed for that power to be appropi- 
ated through him, he would today be only a beggar. 
He investigated; he did not stop there — he appro- 
priated. Let us from our heart thank Edison for 
his earnest work in that direction. 

How many years Columbus was at work in 
thought about the beautiful country in which we 
have our happy homes! If he had never put that 
thought into practice, he would never have realized 
his fondest hope. 

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years to accomplish the work of electricit^r. We 
are looking at its results. We are wondering why 
there are not more discoveries; yet, there is "Noth- 
ing new under the sun," it is all here waiting for 
an Edison, for a Columbus, for you and me to ap- 
propiate. 

Now, dear reader, 1900 years ago a dear brother 
had a thought come to him the same as came to 
Edison only in another direction. He was thirty 
years working upon that thought, — the Power of 
Good. He was being taught there was such power, 
only in another world. He reasoned like this: 
"Well, if it is another world, what good will it be 
to us in this world?" What has all the begging 
and praying of the people of the past brought forth? 
— beggars still. What good to do work in this 
world if you cannot have the results until you go 
to another? Now, I am going to appropriate this 
Power here, and expect results here and now. If 
Edison had not expected results now in this world, 
we would still be in lamp-light infancy, unless some 
other brother had appropriated the thought — NOW. 

When the brother, Jesus, told them he had dis- 
covered the WAY into the unseen Power — Life — 
here and now, and that it was a secret all might 
know, but there were conditions to be fulfilled be- 
fore they could understand, they called him a blas- 
phemer, a crank, possessed of a devil. Why? Be- 
cause they were ignorant. 

Ask Edison if to understand what he does, there 
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day and see the results of the ignorant who try to 
work with electricity. The same as with the Power 
of Life, there are conditions to be fulfilled. It took 
Jesus thirty years to fulfill them. Why? Because 
he was a Pioneer. Then his words of encourage- 
ment to humanity were: "It wont take you so long, 
if you will believe what I tell you, and go to work. 
The words I speak unto you they are spirit, they are 
Life. They are true, but for you to know them as 
true, you must do as I have done — appropriate 
them. Why stand ye idly gazing into the sky and 
into the past? Go to work and appropriate what God 
has given you, and you will show forth the same as 
I. It is all here now. What you are begging and 
praying for in the future is here NOW, but you must 
work it out to know whether I speak truth or false- 
hood! "NOW is the day of salvation." "NOW are 
ye the sons of God." I found these words true. 
How? By claiming them until the understanding 
opened. "Work out your own salvation." It is 
within you. "Seek ye first the kingdom of God." 
You have been seeking everything else first; the 
Kingdom of God last, and not in this world — look- 
ing to another; I found it here. What I have done 
you can do, but you can do it in no other way than 
the one of which I tell you. Take the words I 
speak; hold on to them until they open the way. 
"How long will it take us to find?" Your own work 
will determine that. "According to thy work be it 
unto you." 

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different from Edison and ourselves. This is the 
mistake that binds humanity— IGNORANCE. The 
only difference is that Jesus learned his lesson here, 
and we expect to learn ours in the hereafter. We 
are only putting off what we can know today. How 
do I know? I am appropriating the same words 
that Jesus did, and find that they are bringing forth 
the same results as they did nineteen hundred years 
ago, for Truth is the same "yesterday, today, and 
forever." Whether it be in our school lessons, elec- 
tricity, or the Omnipresence of God. 

You can ask the same question of Edison about 
the work he is mastering as the people asked Jesus 
and there answers would be the same. They would 
tell us: "We can point you into the way, but we 
cannot show it unto you for the power is hidden. 
We can only point you into the way of using it so 
you will not be so long finding it as we were." There 
are conditions to be fulfilled in both directions. If 
Edison had used this power for a few years in our 
day and the practice were not kept up, what think 
you would be the work nineteen hundred years 
hence? Would the people not say: "It is impos- 
sible; those things you tell us are miracles; show 
us the power." They would hold Edison in the 
same thought in which they hold Jesus today. Some 
a myth — some a savior — some a god. God a re^ 
specter of the person of Edison. The secret would 
die away with him in the world, and we would be 
expecting to lean upon Edison's work for our light 
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Oh, humanity! Jesus was as real as Edison, but 
the secret of the power he was working to master 
v/as LIFE. Without that power there never would 
have been a Jesus or an Edison or you and I. 

Now, what Jesus found and appropriated is here, 
today for you and me, but if we do not find it here, 
we will go on, and on, and on until we do find, for 
it is the only light that' will guide us into the secret 
of Eternal Life. Edison will have to find this light 
for it is the only light that will light our pathway 
into Heaven, and we will have to go to work and 
appropriate the same conditions Jesus did, and they 
will be fulfilled here and NOW. Jesus said : "Don't 
lean on me; work out your own salvation." That 
is the lesson, but we have been taught that Jesus 
knew it, and if we believed on him that was all that 
was necesary for us. How many have faithfully 
believed those teachings, and yet they have perished. 
The simple teachings of Jesus were: "Believe on 
God (Good) and thou shalt be saved" — saved from 
the mistakes, — Sin, Sickness, and Death. But how 
few today believe He told the truth. 

Today the people have walked and talked with 
Edison; they have seen the results of his search- 
ings but if they ask him to show them the power, he 
would have to give them the same answer Jesus 
gave as to His research: "I cannot show you the 
power, but it is here. I learned how to work in 
harmony with it; I did not make it. How can I 
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lieve in things seen. I tell you it comes from God 
(Good) ; you declare it comes from the devil." 

Who would believe in Edison and his work 1900 
years hence, if Edison should pass on and the se- 
cret with him? The work would stop. Then think 
of the wonderful story of what electricity had done 
in the past. Who would believe it? If they did, 
they would say the same as about Jesus: "He is 
the only one who ever could understand the use of 
it; he must have been a chosen son of God; he was 
born differently from us" — looking to the outward 
for their answer when it was within. 

Ask Edison if he found it without. He will give 
you the same answer as Jesus gave: "Work out 
your own salvation; it is within you." If I had 
not worked, 1 never would have found the way. All 
I have found will do you no good in understanding 
how to be fortified with the knowledge. The Pow- 
er that was waiting for me to learn how to use, is 
here for you, if you choose to work. 

If Jesus had not learned how to work in har- 
mony with the Power, Life, He would still be in 
ignorance of it, yet the power would still be un- 
changed. 

Edison cannot change the power of electricity; 
he learned how to work in harmony with it. 

The little boy. Watts, first attracted by the tea- 
kettle lid bobbing up and down, investigated, then 
appropriated. See today the results of his search- 
in gs in that line of thought. "Is there an)1;hing 
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beginning in the unseen waiting for us, the high- 
est of creation, to bring it forth. 

If Edison had not found the way to work in har- 
mony with electricity, it would not have changed 
the power. 

It is yesterday, today, and forever the same, but 
we must follow his teachings as he said: "I have 
found the way; I can point it out to you, but I can- 
not walk in it for you." 

"You have the same power I have with which 
to work. Use it as I have used mine. It is the only 
way to find it. It is waiting for you to appropriate 
as I did and until you do this you will be in dark- 
ness. Ye are the light of the world." This is the 
light which will guide us into heaven. That is the 
home for all; the lesson we must all learn. 

Oh, humanity, how long will we remain in dark- 
ness? Until we begin to appropriate the light of 
Good. The light Edison discovered will dispel the 
darkness of night for twelve hours, but. Oh! the 
light the brother Jesus found, when we find it, will 
guide us out of the bondage called the night of 
Eternal Misery. It is here today within us. We 
must work it out, although when we begin our faith 
is as small as a grain of mustard seed. 

Now, how long have we been in the habit of 
praying to God? Did we expect Him to hear our 
prayers? How we will find as the light begins to 
dispel the darkness that we have been talking at 
this end of the line and did not believe that God 
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we were to talk through the telephone and there 
would be no one at the other end to hear? Talking 
into space. We have been talking and screaming 
and begging through our telephone all these years, 
but we did not expect Him to hear. We shut off 
the transmitter with these thougths: "I am a misera- 
ble sinner; I am a worm of the dust; I was bom 
that way. Oh, God; make me good." Oh, human- 
ity! God's work was finished in the beginning: you 
are asking Him to do it over. God's work He pro- 
nounced good; you are educated to pronounce it 
bad. Yet the work is unchanged. Nothing can change 
God's work, but we can do as Jesus did, change our 
work and find what God's work is. You will only 
find it by claiming good. God is ALL GOOD. God 
is ALL LIFE. We are the work of His hands, but 
we have been claiming that we are the work of sin 
and iniquity. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so 
is he." 

Now, the telephone Jesus used was good thoughts. 
Did he hear God the first time he used it? At first 
he was taught to use "Long Distance" as you and 
I were taught, but it was not satisfactory. Do we 
find satisfaction? No; and we never will, until we 
find how short the line is between ourselves and 
God. It took Jesus thirty years to establish the per- 
fect working system between himself and God ; and 
what were his words of encouragement to humanity? 
"It won't take you so long if you will believe what I 
tell you." In God you live, and move, and have your 
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humanity! how ignorance has claimed the "long 
distance," and it will always be long in that direc- 
tion, for it knows not truth. It is a mistake, and a 
mistake cannot connect you with truth, the Power of 
Life. 

Use the telephone of good thoughts, and you 
will find as Jesus did, it is the only way to work in 
harmony with the Power. "Seek ye first the King- 
dom of God," "Short Distance." — Seek ye last the 
Kingdom of God, "Long Distance." Now, when 
you begin to seek, do as Jesus did. Do not hang 
up your receiver and say He is not there ; He is gone 
on a journey or is deaf, or too weak, but keep claim- 
ing until you get an answer. When first you begin 
to talk in this direction through the 'phone of 
thought you may be discouraged at not getting a 
reply immediately, but you will find the reason 
later. The wires had been crossed by the old creeds, 
theological doubts, and we must send out the line- 
men and keep them busy to restore order. Dear 
reader, that is all done right within you. 

What if today humanity would follow Edison 
and implore him to give them the secret into the 
power of electricity? What would be his reply? 
The same as Jesus gave about the secret power of 
Life. "Work out your own salvation; all things 
that are hidden will be revealed." Now, when we 
take Jesus at his word, as he gave himself to the 
world, a discoverer of the secret power which is 
within man, and we learn the same lesson, we will 
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in ignorance and darkness until we are willing to 
do as he said: "Follow me, — Go thou and do like- 
wise; the Kingdom of Heaven is within you," and 
it will lie there dormant until you work it out. No 
one can walk for you. The Principle gave you your 
legs to use. No one can sleep for you. Principle 
gave us all. We have not claimed all nor used it. 
Principle gave us a thinker and the thoughts to 
think, but we have made it a den of thieves, wrong 
thoughts. So we must be about the "Father's busi- 
ness," cleansing the temple. How? Conquer them; 
turn to the right thoughts. Form a habit in that di- 
rection and, oh, dear reader, it will bring its reward 
here and now — Heaven, Harmony. 

We all have this work to do even though we go 
through many mansions before we are willing to 
begin. How true we will find that the old thoughts 
of a far away Heaven will pass away. But Truth 
remains the same and will go on and on until every 
knee shall bow before the conquerer. Love, Life, 
one God, one family. All our brethren. Today, 
this moment, you can begin. It is in thought and 
it must be worked out through thought. Whoever 
you are, everything is right within you. Are you 
willing to try? While at your daily work, be ye 
ministers of the gospel, of creeds, forms or cere- 
monies, you have to go to work the same as your 
brother hod carrier, for "God is no respecter of 
persons." Jesus lived the true teachings. How he 
illustrated the false ones — "When one comes into 
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in goodly apparel, "Sit here," and to the one in 
poor apparel, "Sit there," and the one with wealth 
and good apparel is worshiped, and the one in poor 
apparel is despised. It is not the true worship. 
The true worshiper worships in spirit and in truth. 
Oh, how humanity is its own slave, while all the time 
freedom is in waiting to break the chain of ignor- 
ance. But if we know it not it lies there useless. 
It is free without money or without price, but not 
without work. What have we ever gained in any 
direction without work? Oh, if I can with the 
simple words I have given forth, set one of the chil- 
dren of this great family to thinking, and that one, 
dear reader, you, it has not gone forth and returned 
void. This is our greatest and highest lesson, — to 
be master of thought. Then we can say as did 
Jesus: "I have overcome the world, the flesh, and 
the devil. Evil." 

All through old history are recorded the same 
conditions as are binding humanity today. How 
many times have we sung: "Where, oh, where, are 
the Hebrew children? Safe in the Promised Land. 
Where, oh, where, is good old Daniel? Safe in the 
Promised Land." Now, we were taught that the 
promised land meant Heaven in a far off future, in 
another world. Now, what was it saved Daniel 
from being destroyed by the lions? What was it 
that saved the Hebrew children from being des- 
troyed by fire? The same power that Jesus found 
with which to work in harmony. The same power 
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in harmony. Here is the stumbling block of today. 
Humanity wants to see the results first, and if they 
do not see great advancement in a few days they 
say: "Oh, God is a respecter of persons; He would 
take care of Daniel and the Hebrew children, but 
that was such a long time ago; He has forgotten us" 
— or we would let our doubts in, saying. "It is not 
true, only an allegory." As we hold fast to the 
good, the teachings of Jesus, the light begins to un- 
fold to us right here in this world. We behold the 
same ditches Daniel and the Hebrew children went 
through. It was their proving time — ^whether they 
were master of the situation, and they mastered. 
Out of darknes into God's sunlight. The same sun- 
light for us to enter into right here and now. 

Daniel and the Hebrew children worked out their 
own salvation ; they were not looking to Jesus to do 
their work. Their work was in the silence of 
thought. How humanity has unfolded to the thought 
that proclaiming good with a great noise is neces- 
sary proof that it is the most powerful. Here is an 
illustration: Go to Niagra; hear the great rush of 
waters, a thundering noise, yet what is showing 
forth in use? When it is turned into noiseless chan- 
nels quietly using its power, much can be done. How 
many homes are lighted miles away; how many 
factory wheels turned to give employment to hun- 
dreds. Oh, brother, it is not in your talking that 
shows forth the greatest power. It is in the silent 
v/orking until it will flow through you Ah! that is 
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the outward, saying: "In wliat position was your 
body when you sent forth your prayer?" Thought 
is the root. Watch your thoughts; body responds to 
thought. Too long the loud noise of arguing, dis- 
senting voices have been judging the outward po- 
sition. No matter what the outward environment 
i.3, turn the inward channel into the right direction, 
and you will know for yourself. 

Take the brother, Daniel, again; was it his out- 
ward condition that gave him power? That is 
what the turmoil was about. Those dwelling in envy 
and jealousy besought the King to look upon Daniel 
as a traitor to his commands. His commands were 
about the outward customs called religion, Daniel 
had found the true King, God. Him he was wor- 
shiping in Spirit and in Truth. Now, within, the 
iCing felt that Daniel had something that he had not 
yet found, although he was an earthly King; but 
you see if you are not fortified with the knowledge 
of God's power, you can be swayed by the opinions 
of others, even if you are an earthly King. So they 
brought their forces to bear against Daniel. The 
King was slave now instead of ruler. Slave to pub- 
lic opinion. He commanded Daniel to change his 
custom of worship. What did Daniel do? Here 
was his "Ditch." He kept on in his usual way, 
silently trusting in the one whom he had found, the 
only true God— King, Maker of heaven and earth; 
the same King Jesus found ; the same King you and 
1 must find. 

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would say: "God is able to save to the uttermost." 
Now, what is it you and I today are facing? What 
are our "Ditches?" The same as in the past. We 
have many new names given this bondage: Dys- 
pepsia, Grippe, and many more. The last is 
"Appendicitis." Is that a greater "Ditch" than 
Daniel was in? Yet it is binding you out of Truth. 
Now the same thought that made Grippe was there 
binding in Daniel's time. It was envy, jealousy, 
malice, backbiting, etc.; though with all the new 
names the results bind the same. It was the 
"Ditch" they were teaching when Jesus learned the 
lesson. "You cannot put new wine into old bottles." 
You cannot put the mistake into truth. God is 
Truth. They found God and they knew they could 
trust Him, no matter what "Ditches" men's power 
surrounded them with. They did not cry aloud 
with lip service ; quietly and silently they pushed on 
into the light. Stop here a moment and think if we 
did not have sunlight how much of growth could 
show forth from darkness. If no sun were to shine 
upon this beautiful world, what would be the re- 
sult? Oh, dear reader, that is what is binding us 
today. We are trying to unfold from darkness, 
IGNORANCE, and we cry with a loud voice against 
it, yet we are bound still. Now, the only way out is 
the way Daniel and Jesus found. "Turn, why will ye 
die?" You can get out of whatever condition is 
binding you if you are willing to work the right way, 
but it takes the same power that Daniel used; the 
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man-made creeds, opinions, forms, ceremonies, into 
God's silent ways. 

Look around today at God's symbols showing 
forth without noise; yet we, the hightest symbol of 
all, are claiming that it is not the true way. We 
are trying to make our ways better than God's, and 
we fall into a "Ditch." Who will help us out? 
We ourselves must work out of the things that put 
us there. And, oh, dear reader, we need not go 
back into the past to find those who helped them- 
selves to master their situations. We have them in 
our own time. "For all the good the past hath had 
remains to make our own time glad." For those 
who conquered in the past, and have gone into an- 
other mansion, have not taken away any of the sun- 
light. There is just as much today as then. Those 
in the past who mastered mathematics have not 
taken away one bit of those lessons. 

Let us stop and ask ourselves today: "Upon 
whom are we leaning? Man-made doctrines that 
change, or upon God who changes not. When we 
learn to lean upon God, we will be fortified with 
the knowledge of the dominion as Daniel and Jesus 
were. Then we will be safe in the Promised Land." 



6— A FEW THOUGHTS OF LIFE 

A LITTLE girl who had been put to bed and left 
alone in the dark called to her mother, who 
was in an adjoining room: ''Mamma, Fm afraid; 
won't you come and sit beside me?" "No; go to 
sleep," was the reply. "There's nothing to be 
afraid of, and I'm busy." 

"But it's lonely here by myself. I want some- 
body to come." Again the mother refused to go, 
adding the threat: 

"If you don't stop bothering me and be quiet, 
I'll punish you. Here's your rag doll; take that and 
hush." 

"I don't want dolly," said the child sadly. 

"You know that God is always with you. Noth- 
ing can happen to you where He is," reassured the 
mother. 

"I don't want dolly, and I dont want God," was 
the startling retort. "I want something with a warm 
facer 

This is a true story of a real child, and when I 
first heard it it touched a responsive chord in my 
own heart. How many of us have felt, "I am alone 
in the dark?" How useless all dolls would be with 
the old teachings, telling us to hush and be satisfied 
with a far-away God, who must be reached by theo- 
logical creed and blind faith, and pass through the 
cold gateway of death, colder than the doll. 

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Everything around us is in darkness from those 
old teachings. "When ye know the truth, the truth 
will set you free." 

We are mentally cramped and bound down, and 
could not think our own thoughts or live our own 
life. That is the saddest and lonliest place on earth. 
We did not know it was possible for our Spirit to be 
free from temporal environment. Not knowing the 
way, we gave ourselves up to the existing influences 
and conditions and became correspondingly morbid. 
The cords tightened. They were gradually shutting 
out life. Joy was hidden from us. The beauty 
was hidden from the face of Nature, and on every 
side were misery, sorrow, and useless struggles with 
what we called Fate. Friends offered consolation 
and reproof as they saw fit. 

"I don't see why you should be unhappy," said 
one. "You have everything," looking around at our 
visible comforts. Others would ask solemnly: "Is 
your soul saved, dear?" Nothing matters so much 
as that. Oh, how true, but what kind of soul-sav- 
ing? 

"What is it to gain the whole world, with Heaven 
left out?" Another would say, "You are not doing 
your duty; you must go to church and prayer meet- 
ings regularly; attend class meetings and give your 
demonstrations. If your Spiritual condition is im- 
paired the people will pray for you and you will be 
all right again." 

Oh, no wonder Jesus said, "Blind leaders of the 
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"^something with a warm face," we see a rag doll 
had been given to us, called Religion. It was all 
they had to give — could give nothing better. Oh, 
humanity, when we find what God hath given us, 
how warm it is, how comforting, how cheering, no 
loneliness, no coldness there. 

How many old dolls had been placed upon us in 
the old teaching. First one, you are a sinner, born 
in sin and iniquity; you must go to work to beg and 
pray to be released. As years go on other dolls were 
added. Responsibility, a kind of jack-in-box; you 
could lock it down, or think you had done so, but 
it would pop up again, and brought forth these feel- 
ings, "Oh, what is life worth?" Then there was 
Duty, a paper doll, stuffed with the Ten Command- 
ments, claimed to have been bequeathed to mortality 
in the year one. "Mortal mind." Not one had a 
warm face. Jesus said, "Rub them out; a new com- 
mandment I give unto you, which contains the 
whole. Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, with all 
Mind, Heart, Soul and Strength ('Immortal Mind') 
and thy neighbor as thyself." 

Who is my neighbor? Your thoughts. 

What deadweights the old teachings were. The 
time comes to the seeker like to the child. Nothing 
will satisfy, but "something with a warm face." 
How near us all the while, only hidden by men's 
words. How those stuffed dolls of men-made re- 
ligion spilled away when I was told if I entertained 
these words: "Whatsoever things are honest; 
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lovely; whatsoever things are of good report, think, 
think on these things." Here were living words. It 
was the first faint glimmer of Good, the "something 
with a warm face." 

We find that by filling our thinker with the posi- 
tive affirmations of Spirit, there will be no room 
for the negative statements of man. 

What do all the empty words mean which are be- 
ing spoken in the world today by what is called 
Mortal Thought? They are simply man's confes- 
sion of his own weakness, man's condemnation of 
himself. 

Spirit, being all strength, all fullness, has naught 
to do with admission of emptiness. It knows neither 
the thing nor its name. It has nothing to do with 
confessions of crime or sin, because it recognizes 
no law or code of men. It is a law unto itself. The 
spiritiual mind is not subject to the law, neither, in- 
deed, can be. It speaks the living word, for it 
knows no other. The emancipation of the spiritual 
nature from the thraldom of ignorance, the bondage 
ture from the thraldom of ignorance, the bondage 
of mental servitude and the weight of the world's 
dolls is not accomplished immediately. 

It takes time to change conditions. It took Jesus 
over thirty years. How he encouraged the seekers. 
Don't be discouraged if it does not come in the first 
watch, or second, or third; hold on. It is bound 
to conquer, for oh, dear heart, how sweet it is to see 
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darkness and slavery of so-called evil into the glor- 
ious sunlight and liberty of the "All Good." 

Take a peep into the mirror of Nature and see 
how fair you are. Listen to the voices of sister 
spirits, the murmuring trees, laughing waters and 
peaceful meadows. They are perfect. So are you. 
They take no anxious thought; neither should you. 
They are sufficient unto themselves; so are you. Call 
the brook a sinner and it will dimple with smiles 
and flow on as tranquilly as ever. Call the trees 
wicked and the branches will clap their hands and 
v/hisper as sweetly as before. 

"The kingdom is within you." Work it out. Oh, 
how we find we have been trying to lift something 
that did not belong to us. 

Nothing that is really ours should tire us. That 
is pure joy which is always easy to carry. 

Once in school the teacher was addressing a class 
of theological students. He said, "Young men, 
don't v/ear yourselves out cutting stubble.^' Did the 
teacher know the true meaning of those words he 
was speaking? Did the young men understand it 
to go into new fields to give forth the old doctrine 
"be missionaries; go and teach the heathen?" Who 
are heathens? Those who do not know how to solve 
the Problem of Life. 

The stubble is the short ends of the wheat stalks 
left after the harvest. It is useless to run a harvester 
over the stubble fields. It would wear out the ma- 
chine, the horses, the men for nothing. How many 
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stubble fields cutting nothing? You hear the rattle 
of the machines, but not a grain of wheat gathered 
into the garner. There is just as good wheat as ever. 
Out of the infinite supply of ideas there is a great 
harvest which has never been touched. The wisdom 
of the doctrines of the past — (Jesus said, "Let the 
dead past bury the past") — is nothing to be com- 
pared with what is waiting for us in the unexplored 
kingdom within us. There is still more and more 
to follow. But we must get our supplies from head- 
quarters. "Thus," saith the Lord, "rang out from 
the men who made history." But the time has come 
for the cry to go forth from each heart. / am has 
spoken to me. Hear ye the Word of God which is 
within you. The men who spoke and wrote in the 
days of old got their wisdom out of the unseen and 
unknown. They did not exhaust the supply or close 
up the fountains. Are the multiplication tables ex- 
hausted after millions of humanity have drawn from 
them? The way and door is still open for all who 
will listen to the inner voice of the "I am that I am." 
Oh, how we fold ourselves to rest in sleep, knowing 
the '' something with a warm face^ is so near, filling 
us with the knowledge of the Dominican that has 
been, now and forever will be — Everlasting Truth. 
Gleaning over the old stubble fields of the past, 
"Man, that is born of women, is full of trials and 
troubles and death," and always will be from that 
gleaning. "Every seed bringeth forth of its kind." 
What brought this body forth? Life, our Creator. 
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that is born of God, is full of Life and Love and 
Happiness, and his days are like unto his Father's, 
without beginning and without end — eternal, im- 
mortal, invisible." The visible showeth forth the 
invisible. You must have a body visible to show 
forth life invisible. 

How the old teachings had been implanted in our 
garden — the mind — in childhood that God burns his 
disobedient children, (which are a part of Himself) 
forever in Hell, and that there is a great Manevolent 
being, the Devil, who disputes with God the domin- 
ion of the universe, besides other points of a current 
theology have such tremendous errors, double-twist- 
ed and intertwined in our mental organizations, that 
it is a wonder that all are not perpetually diseased, 
either mentally or physically. Truth is greater. It 
proves, even if we are unconscious of it. 

It can be safely said that people who entertain 
such Theological thoughts are "dead in trespasses 
and sin." 

Emerson says: "As men's prayers are a disease 
of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the in- 
tellect." 

Here is another truth given to the world by W. 
H. Holcombe to free it from slavery, from fear and 
from ignorance: "He who has a false idea or con- 
ception of God is an idolater, worshipping some 
graven image of his own imagination or reason. If 
a man has a false idea of God, his love of God is 
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some degree, wrong with him from center to cir- 
cumference, morally, mentally, physically." 

The wrong idea of God is the secret (cause) of 
all the ignorance and misery of the world, of its 
sins (mistakes) and diseases, its false religions, 
false philosophies, false sciences. 

Since the world began, indeed, before there was 
a world, the first cause — Omnipotence, the Infinite, 
God, the Absolute, has been endeavoring to express 
itself. This desire for expression was the cause of 
the formations of worlds. 

Jesus was asked, "When was the beginning of the 
world?" "He replied, "No one knows but the 
Father." If God had given him All Power, All 
Knowledge like unto Himself, would he not have 
known? 

When was the beginning of the principle of mu- 
sic, mathematics? Find out Truth and you will 
know for yourself. It is, always will be, world with- 
out end ; Alpha, Omega. 

Forward, then, should be our watchword; On- 
ward, our motto. "Allow thy thoughts to wander 
amid scenes of by-gone ages, but never bind thy life 
to thoughts on written pages." 

If you think yourself a ruler, you are a ruler; 
if you think yourself a slave, you are a slave. "As 
a man thinketh in his heart, so is he." 

Why, then, should we continue to tread the ruts 
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When will we rise above doctrines of the past? 
When master the superstitions of our fathers? When 
vvill we surmount the ignorance of today? When 
the age of Love displaces the age of Fear. Fear has 
lield the intellect since its blossoming into realiza- 
tion behind prison bars. Fear has given to men Sin, 
Sickness, Death. Love will give to him Happiness, 
Health and Immorality. 

"Slowly, beautifully, like the coming of the 
dawn," approaches a new age, and with it comes 
thoughts as these: The rushing lava pauses not for 
bended knees, the lightning for clasped hands, nor 
the waves of the sea for prayer; that pleasure is not 
sin; that happiness is the only good; that demons 
and gods exist only in the imagination of men; that 
faith is a lullaby song to put the soul to sleep ; that 
is a bribe that fear offers to supposed power; that 
offering rewards in another world for obedience in 
this is simply buying a soul on credit; that know- 
ledge consists in ascertaining the laws that govern 
Nature, and that wisdom is the science of happiness. 

"Slowly, grandly, beautifully, these truths are 
da^vning upon mankind." 

It is an escort of grand renown which translates 
the soul into a beautiful state; but it takes a mind 
sublime to bring order out of chaos. 

How the dear brother over nineteen hundred 
years ago sought the "something with a warm face." 
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last problem he was forsaken by the Father, for they 
were looking for outward manifestations. 

What answer this first and last and only friend 
— God — made to Jesus. Think ye those who stood 
by could hear it? If the bystanders heard it, they 
would not have understood it. But spurned and 
despised reformers, deserted martyrs, have heard it, 
not in the language of speech such as men use, but 
in the language of feeling such as God employs. Its 
promise is: "Though father and mother cast thee 
off, though brother and sister leave thee, though 
time-trusted friends deny thee and flatterers revile, 
one friend abideth with thee still and forever." And 
He is God. Lean upon Him. Trust in Him. 

How many of the world's great reformers have 
been understood and appreciated, even by their 
friends? But it has been the good fortune of al- 
most all of these to have found in God the friend- 
ship which there fellowmen denied them, for which 
their hearts yearned, and without which they could 
have accomplished nothing. 

In every age reformers and martyrs are the de- 
barred and self-debarring of society, towering high 
above their fellowmen; they like heaven piercing 
Mt. Hood, must stand isolated; their thoughts and 
depths of feeling are beyond the comprehension of 
the world's intelligence, and that to ignorance is a 
serious offense. 

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or deepest sorrow. Though we stammer our inner- 
most thoughts, we will receive the truest, safest 
counsel. Without God the heroic is unattainable. 
Without God nothing supremely great or lastingly- 
good has yet been achieved. "If of men it will 
fall, of God it will stand." 

If in the hour of your tribulations you have not 
God to turn to for comfort and faith and hope, you 
will succumb, and all your efforts and hopes will 
end in nothingness. Without a strong anchorage in 
God, the storm will tear your bark from its moor- 
ings and dash it against the pitiless rocks. 

Let us, dear reader, find the field to glean, that 
Jesus pointed the way; then we can see we never 
would have found God by gleaning over the stub- 
ble fields of theology. Their harvest is Sin, Sick- 
ness, Death. 

How the searchlight of Spirit separates the mis- 
takes from Truth! 

Today how many are gleaning from the words 
they read in the gospels that have been translated 
by men, revised by men, and what do they glean? 

"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" 

They know not God as their friend until they trust 
Him as Jesus did. Then they will hear the words 
that He spoke: "My God, my God, thou wilt never 
forsake me." 

Oh, he found the ^'something with a warm face." 
Go thou and do likewise. 



THE LIFE LINE 

" T ABSOLUTELY refuse to see anything but 

X good." Think it, say it, mean it. Never let 

it go. I absolutely refuse to see anything but good." 

No matter how cruel the trial, how keen the 
agony how heartbreaking the disappointment, de- 
termine that you will cling to these words. Oh, it 
seems hard, well-nigh impossible to keep to this 
thought in the midst of such turbulent conditions on 
the eternal plane. It seems so hard to fight off dis- 
couragement, that treacherous condition that para- 
lyzes effort and keeps us from our birthright. But 
do not give discouragement a foothold. Thrust the 
thought of it from you. refuse to see anything but 
the good. 

Think of the millions of people who profess to 
believe in God. Do they? Do you? Do any of us 
thoroughly believe in the good so thoroughly that 
we never grow impatient, doubting, despondent? 
But that is what it really means to believe in God. 

Those with whom you associate may be worldly, 
self-seeking, superficial, utterly antagonistic to all 
our higher, finer aspirations. Don't despair over it. 
Take your experiences in the way as training. 

Someone very near and dear to you may mis- 
judge you and cruelly misunderstand your motives. 
One you thought unswerving in loyalty may prove 
unfaithful. All your cherished ideals, plans and 
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your feet, but do not let go of these words: "I ab- 
solutely refuse to see anything but good'' 

It is the golden life-line thrown out to you. 
Struggling helplessly in the waves of despairing, ig- 
norant thought, you feel the storm beating restless- 
ly about you ; your soul quakes at the sight of moun- 
tain billows, at the fierce flash of lightning, at the 
deafening roar of the awful tempest; you cast hope- 
less eyes upon the wreck of your life's ship — all, 
al] is gone ! So you wail in your despair. You are 
drowning! drowning! You cast up desperate hands 
from the waves, and lo! the life-line — "I absolutely 
refuse to believe in anything but the good. All God 
made is good!' Cling to that golden line. It will 
save you. It will draw you from the wreck and ruin 
and disaster, and lift you safely out of all danger 
into a realm where storms are hushed, the waves 
are stilled, and your soul is bathed in sunshine 
and peace. 



^'THE DEAD PICTURE" 

IGNORANCE, who looks only at the outward and 
claims it the real, seeking but never finding, 
cries, "A Picture of the Christ we want, so these 
eyes can behold, these lips worship. Where shall 
we go? Who is the greatest of the world's artists?" 
Michael Angelo. 

When he was asked to bring forth a picture of 
the Christ, where did he go for his model? Into 
the past. 

If you had passed by his home during his work- 
ing hours you would have seen him with his head 
buried in his hands, thinking, thinking. Where 
were his thoughts? In the past. 

Oh, how shall I bring forth one who showed forth 
sorrow, pity, disappointment, death? What kind 
of a face to portray to the world, one whom the 
v/orld scorned? A sad one. How to represent the 
crovm the world gave him — a crown of thorns. One 
whom the world rejected, a face acquainted with 
grief and full of sorrow. 

Is this die picture hanging upon your memory 
wall today? 



"A LIVING PICTURE" 

WHEN Jesus was asked to paint a picture of 
the Christ (the people had David's picture 
hanging upon their memory wall as the Christ, the 
Son of God), Jesus said, "Christ (Truth) is Life." 
Where did he go for his model, into the past or in 
the Now? He said: "I have found the Christ 
(Truth) within me, at hand, through right think- 
mg. 

The nearest of an outward living picture I can 
point you to is this little child I sit before you. How 
unconsciously it is showing forth health, happiness, 
joy, peace, contentment, confidence. Consciously 
unfolded, the Living Picture shows forth in a Per- 
fect Life. 

"Except ye become as a little child, you cannot 
enter into the kingdom of Heaven." Harmony. 

Who can paint this picture? You, dear reader; 
it is right within you to unfold. 

Body, the canvas; Thought, the brush; Life the 
paint. 



FLASH THE SEARCHLIGHT 

OVER nineteen hundred years now since the 
candle light was searching in the outward 
for the thief and robber. Today, what is called 
the enlightened age, we have greater outward 
lights. Unfoldment has shown forth in that direc- 
tion. But with all our great arc lights turned in all 
directions to find the thief, have they descerned any- 
thing more than they did with the candle light? 

"Our foes are those of our own household." The 
only light to discover those foes is "The light that 
Ughteth every man that cometh into the world." 
The same light Jesus and Paul found within. It is 
within you and me waiting for us to let it shine. 
The light of Truth and Love. What benefit have 
we derived from their words and works? Here we 
are today listening to the same old teachings of the 
ignorant past, the Second Creation, Men's Creation, 
Finite, bowing down to custom, form, and cere- 
monies. Think of those teachings today, a far off 
God and Heaven, in the hereafter, holding on to 
the old ignorant ways, trying to make men for the 
Sabbath, and prepare them for God's kingdom in 
the hereafter. Holding on to the thoughts of error 
that the gateway into Heaven is death, and their 
bodies are responding to those thoughts. They are 
going Lo here, and, Lo there to find health for their 
bodies, seeking in the outward, going to the earthly 
physician to give what the Father has already given 
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How can they tell us of the Father if they know 
Him not? Master Ignorance and you have mas- 
tered the Devil. 

Like in mathematics, many problems to be 
worked out, yet the one principle back of all. So in 
the problems of life, many to be worked out, yet 
one principle back of all. Are the teachers of men 
following the very way today that Jesus pointed 
out as the broad way, and leadeth to destruction? 
The pathway is death. Where is their enlighten- 
ment? Are they still following the outward forms 
and observances, baptism and communion, building 
temples made with hands to worship in? Are they 
showing forth enlightenment? 

"By their fruits ye shall know them." Are their 
bodies showing forth the first fruit, Health? If 
not they are still in the broad way. "How can a 
brother tell a brother to cast the mote out of his eye 
when he has a beam within his own?" How can a 
brother teach the gifts of God if he knows them not? 
Are they teaching, "Seek ye the Kingdom last?" 
Where is there enlightenment? Jesus taught, "Seek 
ye the Kingdom first right here in this world." Are 
they teaching wicked world, wicked body? God 
pronounced Good world, Good body. Where is 
their enlightenment? 

"Thy foes are those of thine own household," 
thy mistaken thoughts, and no one can cleanse these 
thoughts but ourselves. 

If the teachers are teaching this lesson then they 
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are teaching, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God 
and all else will be added," and they are showing 
forth through their outward expression that they 
have found this knowledge, and are fortified with 
the Dominion God gave, then they are being faith- 
ful to the charge Jesus gave. 

Are they teaching you how to use the talents God 
gave you right here and now, Health, Strength, 
Happiness, Gentleness, Kindness, Love, then they 
are being faithful to the charge Jesus gave. 

Are they teaching Heaven within at hand, and 
the only entrance is through the door of Life, and 
the Soul or Channel Right thoughts? Then they 
are faithful to the charge Jesus gave. 

Are they teaching, "Give all the praise to God; 
lean and trust wholly upon God? Then they are 
faithful to the charge Jesus gave. 

"Jesus wept." Why? Because they clung to ig- 
norance, when Truth was their birthright, but they 
were blinded by the teachings of men. 

What would be His weeping if He were here 
today, to see how very little had the present profited 
by His teachings? How they are praying, and 
singing all their hyms, leaning and trusting in Him 
to still do their work for them. "Arise and go to 
the Father," were the words He taught. He said 
He unfolded to those words, "and there is no other 
way under the shining sun whereby men may be 
saved." Today I am finding the words He spoke are 
true words. I was willing to let go of man-made 
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and hold to the words He spoke — "The words I 
speak, they are Spirit, they are Life." 

I held on to them daily. God is our life, God is 
our Health, God is our Strength, God is Life, the 
only Creator, only the good is true, Heaven is 
within. 

And the works do follow as He taught. I worked 
faithfully in the temple made with hands, followed 
the forms and duties, yet there was something 
lacking. We were not taught that Health was a 
God-given talent. Oh, no, the saving of souls was 
church work; the saving of bodies the physician's 
work. 

"What God hat joined together let no men put 
asunder." Life joins soul and body. 

I turned from the earthly physician's verdict, 
"you must die," to try what this lesson of changing 
your thoughts would do. Did I have a hard lesson? 
Yes, but I thank God for the hard lesson, for oh, the 
knowledge it brings. I know what and where the 
Power is that helps. We all are in the unconscious 
state. This lesson brings you into the conscious. 
Why did we not find this knowledge from the teach- 
ings of men? They are holding to the ingnorance 
of the past, making men born in sin and iniquity 
good for one day — ^the Sabbath. 

And how, as children, that day was a gloomy 
day, not as happy as Monday. Jesus taught, "The 
Sabbath is made for man, not man for the Sabbath." 

"Truth never changes; it is yesterday, today and 
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four. There was a time when we were unconscious 
of its being truth. We claimed twice two is four 
to gain the knowledge of four is truth. We cannot 
go back into ignorance from that. "Truth never 
changes." 

Now, dear reader, dwell here and take up a col- 
lection, the grandest one you can ever collect — 
your best thoughts. You will find, as Jesus found, 
"Truth never changes." Now you have found the 
truth of four. Can you change it? The same when 
you find your true birth, your true inheritance, 
"Born of God." God is Life. Now when we think 
of our birth we thought of the body. Was body 
first? Did not life create and bring forth body? 
Then Life is Creator. Life is good Creator — God. 
Life pronounced His work good. Now think upon 
what Jesus told them. If their doctrines were true, 
"Man is born in sin and iniquity." Then he will 
have to go on through eternity a sinner, "For Truth 
never changes.'^ 

I am finding, as Jesus did, — claim only your in- 
heritance from God — your birthright. Then the 
old, mistaken way of claiming our inheritance from 
Adam and Eve will vanish, as our mistakes in school 
did, when we get the right answer. "Through Adam 
came death; through truth, life. How today man- 
kind is in bondage to those thoughts of the past. 
Bom to die; nothing certain but death. The only 
entrance to their far-away heaven. Can you find in 
Jesus' teachings where he pointed to a far-off heav- 
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within. Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his 
righteousness, and all else ivill be added. 

Are the teachers of today pointing the way to a 
far-off heaven, and the only entrance to that heaven 
is through death? Then they are not pointing the 
way as Jesus did. He said, "Seek ye first the king- 
dom of heaven within." 

Their teaching: "Seek ye last the kingdom in 
another world." 

Did you ever gaze into a mudpuddle when it was 
quiet and calm? You could see the reflection of the 
blue sky in it. How could you shut that reflection 
out? Stir it up. Now mankind in his true nature 
reflects the things of God. But in his ignorance he 
is stirred up and shuts them out. Yet when we know 
the truth, we can see the blue sky never changed ; it 
Vi^as still diere, but the puddle was stirred up and 
obscured our view. 

By the false teachings of ages, man is born to 
die; born in sin and iniquity, inherited from man 
instead of God. Wicked world; wicked body; 
nothing certain but death has shut mankind out in 
his consciousness of the truth. "God made the world 
and all things therein, and pronounced His work 
good." "Choose whom you will serve — God's word 
or man's." "You cannot serve two masters." Could 
you serve the right and the wrong answer to your 
lesson in school? Never! When you got the right 
answer, all the mistaken ones were gone, though 
you had made seventy times seven. Now pause and 
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your work last. Never! We worked out our own 
problem. , 

Jesus taught, "The words I speak they are spirit, 
they are truth." "Don't lean upon me; lean upon 
God." How? By finding the good words; they 
are God's word. 

Like the teacher in school, if we had only leaned 
upon them, how much would he have learned? 
They said, take these words and study them until 
you know them. Then we gained knowledge. I 
began my work by claiming these words : If God is 
the only Creator, I will hold to those words ; if God 
is Life, then Life is the Creator; if Life is the only 
Creator, then the things of Life are the only true 
ones. I held to those words until consciousness was 
awakened. 

Did I have a hard lesson? Yes. At first we are 
so muddled up with the teachings of the past it 
seems as if there is no room for anything else. But 
as we hold faithfully to the words, soon a streak of 
light will appear. "The darkest hour is just before 
the dawn." First the streak; gradually the light 
keeps coming, until the darkness disappears. So in 
this lesson, the problem of life solved here and now. 

Why did we not find this knowledge from the 
teachings of men? Their starting point is wrong. 
"Born to die." "Like attracts like." "The fear of 
death before their eyes; beginning death, ending 
death." "Born of life." "Beginning life." "Like 
attracts like," "Life more abundantly." 

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is unchangeable. "Yesterday, today and forever the 
same." 

God made the days and pronounced them good. 
Men claim one day good — Sabbath day. Can we 
change "twice two is four?" "Truth never changes." 
But we must know the truth to be set free. 

Does the sun change his ways on Sunday? Does 
the flower stop blooming? The birds stop singing? 
The grass stop growing? The trees stop putting 
forth their leaves? 

Oh, no! Only mankind, the hightest of God's 
creation, His heirs, in the deepest of ignorance try- 
ing to make themselves over on that day. When 
they find their true birth and unfold from it we 
will know the meaning, "I and the Father are one," 
working in harmony with the rest of Creation. 

The teachings of men are that Jesus was bom 
differently from us; that God gave Him special 
powers. Take Jesus at his word. He said, "God is 
no respecter of persons." The man-made doctrines 
teach, "God sent Jesus perfect into this world." 
What do the problems He was working out the thir- 
ty years mean? Some cost Him drops of blood. If 
He had known all — had the God-given power! 
What was the use of his working? 

Take Jesus at His word: "I have been tempted in 
all points like unto yourself, but I found the way to 
conquer!' 

Men's teachings make God a respecter of the 
persons of today, saying God sent Jesus into this 
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What have we been saved from? Did Jesus ful- 
fill that mission? Is there no sin in the world? 
What will become of the people of the past if Jesus 
is the only Savior that can save? 

Take Jesus at His word: "The only Savior is 
to know the Truth," Work out your own salva- 
tion." "What I have done, you must do." "Watch 
your thoughts; stand porter at the door of your 
thoughts until you conquer." I conquered mine. 
There is no other way mankind can be saved. Truth 
masters ignorance. 

Jesus said all He had worked out for Himself 
would do us no good unless we were willing to 
follow his example. "Go thou and do likewise." 
"This do and ye shall /fi;e." "I came to teach 
Life and Life more abundantly." Do you believe 
he would be a deceiver and tell a falsehood? You 
will not know until you work as he directed. "Ask 
and ye shall receive." Now do not ask for the 
things that are already yours. Ask for understand- 
ing how to receive them. Knock. Seek for un- 
derstanding how to be true to the things God hath 
given from the beginning. 

He never claimed any other birth for himself 
than he claimed for you and me. 

The man-made doctrines cannot find in their 
work the fruits Jesus found in his. "By their fruits 
ye shall know them." Their knowledge was from 
the world's. His was from God. "If thou lack 
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upbraideth not." "Arise and go to the Father, 
first in thought, then in word, then in deed." 

I took Jesus as a teacher. He said, "The words 
I speak are truth." I took the words, held on to 
them until the meaning came to me. '''Now are we 
the sons of God." Born of God (good). He was 
telling them of the spiritual birth. They were 
looking at the birth of body as the only birth. Now 
we have had many births — bom into the knowledge 
of arithmetic, music, cooking, sewing, etc. From 
their men-made doctrines they had never seen a 
body respond to such power as Jesus did. So they 
say it was miraculous. Yes, and it always will be 
to ignorance. 

Jesus taught, "The way into Life is through 
Life." "In the pathway thereof there is no death." 
Some of his followers said, "It is a hard lesson; 
who can bear it?" He said, 'Whosoever will." 

Many fell back into the outward observances of 
the past, content to dwell in the thought Jesus did it 
all, and if they would only believe he did they 
would be saved. How many today are leaners? 

"Come unto me all ye who are v/eary and heavy 
laden and learn of me." 

Oh, humanity, you are only making your road 
harder and longer by clinging to those men-made 
doctrines. Look them squarely in the face and set 
your thinker to work. 

Jesus taught: Life is Principle; the things of 
Life are the real; hold fast to the thoughts of good 
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he leaned; lean upon life, and he lived; follow me; 
work out your own leaning and living from the true 
source; there is only Life. 

Oh, humanity, this is for you to know, without 
money and without price, but not without work. 
Our work is to grow. "Consider the lilies, how 
they grow." 

So long the way has been covered up by ignorant 
thinking it seems as if we were undertaking an im- 
possibility to climb the ladder of life; but persist- 
ence will win. We have been trained to thoughts, 
changeable; we must begin to draw them gently 
back again and drill them in the thoughts unchange- 
able. How I dwelt for months upon these thoughts, 
"If God is so Powerful, All-seeing, kind and Good, 
why does He not blot out all the cause of so much 
misery, when so many faithful prayers are sent to 
Him? Why does he not heed?" Here I was at a 
standstill in my lesson. I had mastered many, but 
this stood before me like a stone wall. Where did 
sin come from? It shows forth more power than 
good. We read these words, "The prayer of the 
righteous availeth much." Here is the way the light 
came to me: I said I will hold fast to the true 
thoughts and see what they will bring me. 

So many times my thoughts turned to my child- 
hood days, for I was in the baby class of the lessons 
of Life. I loved to watch my mother making gar- 
den. Did she scatter the seed over the top of the 
ground? Read the illustration of the sower Jesus 
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ness; sow the seed, then the waiting time. Is noth- 
ing being done down there in darkness? Oh, yes; 
Life is at work giving that little seed a root, "By 
and by," not in another world, but right here in this. 
I walked by the mother's side watching for the un- 
seen to show forth into the seen. Then it appeared 
all along in those even rows, the tiny green leaves. 
Each day they grew higher. I can hear my mother's 
exclamation, "Why, I did not know I planted those 
seeds so thickly!" But in a few days she discov- 
ered those that were growing the fastest were weeds. 
"Why, where do the weeds come from? I planted 
good seed," my mother exclaimed. If my mother 
had stood by that garden bed and prayed from 
morning until night, "Where did the weeds come 
from?" would she have found out? Or would it 
have removed the weeds? Or if she had said, "I 
did my part; I planted the good seed; they must do 
the work and get rid of the weeds," would that 
avail? Oh, no; the weeds would have grown right 
along and choked the good seed out. They would 
have gone to seed and looked for another patch of 
cultivated ground to flourish in. Would it have 
been of any use if my mother had begged and 
prayed to the principle of Life — God — to take a- 
way the life out of the weeds and only let the good 
seed grow? Oh, no; there was work for her to do. 
There is a way to get rid of them — pull them up, 
and keep pulling until they are gone. "Every plant 
the Heavenly Father did not plant must be up- 
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Our thoughts are our plants. Is our garden (our 
mind) filled with plants of envy, jealousy, malice, 
backbiting, fornication, adultery, murder? Then 
we will reap a harvest of sin, sickness, death. 
Is the good pushed out for another world? 

Jesus taught: Change your thoughts; the good 
is omnipresent; work out your own salvation here 
and now receive your reward. 

One mind — Immortal. God is the giver of good. 
He gave us the good seed to sow — love, joy, health, 
strength, happiness, kindness, contentment, etc., 
and the harvest we reap will be Heaven, Home, 
God, Life. 

The gardeners in the past did not keep the weeds 
out, so they grew and grew until the good seeds 
were choked out into the hereafter. Their doctrine 
is to get down on their knees and beg and beseech 
to take away the weeds. But they remain and 
always will until they pull them up. 

"Thy foes are those of thine own household." 

Jesus began early in childhood as a pioneer to 
find the way, to pull up the weeds from his garden 
— his mind — ^to let the good seeds grow. Many 
years he labored in his garden, but he triumphed 
at last. "I have overcome; I have finished the work 
in this Mansion." "What I have done you must 
do." "It wont take you so long if you will work 
as I tell you." 

How do I know Jesus pointed out the true way? 
I tried it. I saw I had been standing by that gar- 
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to have the weed sickness removed. Going to min- 
isters for prayers, physicians for medicine. Yet 
they were with me still. So I went to work on this 
lesson — to watch my thoughts. Did I stand by 
that garden and say, There is no Life and sensation 
in weeds? There are no weeds there? Could I 
deny them away? Never! I had to go to work to 
claim the thoughts God gave. If He is the giver 
of only good, I will accept only the good. I kept 
claiming the good, only the good, though the weeds 
were twisting this temple from head to foot. The 
way seemed dark as night. I kept turning my 
thoughts to the Light. By and by a streak of light 
appeared. I kept steadily coming into the light. 
"There is light in the darkness, but the darkness 
comprehend eth it not." Go into a dark room, 
light a match; see how much of the darkness dis- 
appears. Bring more light — more darkness dis- 
appears. So the darkness of ignorance falls away 
as the Light of Truth is turned upon it. The old 
leaves drop off as the new put forth. "Ye are the 
light of the world." How many understand they 
are? "The light that lighteth every one that cometh 
into the world" is within you. Learn to work it out. 

We were taught, "In sin and iniquity we live, 
move and have our Being." And the garden is 
flourishing with these weeds. Oh, humanity, all 
the while the Good is right with us, "but we were 
blind leaders of the blind, and we were falling 
into the ditch — grave." 

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ers to the seeds He hath given us. All we have to 
give up is error. How we cling to it, or rather, it 
clings to us, for it is a habit of long standing, and 
it takes time and patience to change and break 
step with it; but it can be done. 

It took Jesus thirty years pioneering to pull up 
the weeds. Here is his words of encouragement to 
us; "It wont take you so long if you will believe 
what I tell you." Hold to the good thoughts. God 
is their Creator. Then comes the words, then the 
Deeds. "First the blade, then the ear, then the 
full-grown corn." "Be not weary in well doing; 
in due season ye shall reap, if ye faint not." 

What became of the mistakes in school when you 
got the right answer? You never could have seen 
what would become of them until you worked out 
the right answer. 

"The Kingdom of God is within." Work out 
your own salvation." We were taught to lean upon 
Jesus' work. What has it taught us? Jesus taught 
lean upon God. When we follow his teachings we 
will find as he did — God — Omnipotent, Omniscient, 
Omnipresent Life — Father. 

Holding on to the claims of the first and only 
Creation and Creator — ^words in the 1st Chapter of 
Genesis : 

The lonely hours, 

The discouraged hours. 

The opinions of near ones, 

The ridicule of dear ones. 

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the meaning of "I, if / be lifted, I can draw all men 
unto me." 

The good in us when we know how to live it, 
we can point the way to others. 

When we lived in the weeds we could get no 
higher than weeds. 

Here is an illustration that helped me: Let us 
go to the roundhouse. There stands an engine, so 
bright on the outside, looks as if it were all ready 
for use. Why does it not move? Humanity, the 
engine of itself can do nothing. Here comes the 
engineer. His work is all ready and waiting. Well, 
now why does it not move, there is the engine and 
the engineer? Something more is necessary — the 
power. Attach it. It moves slowly at first, a little 
faster, then faster. By and by there is a grating. 
What is wrong? Is it the power? Oh, no, the 
power is perfect. Something wrong with the 
engine? Ah, the engineer comes to the rescue. 
Some parts of his work he has neglected, for that 
depends upon him for its care. He knows he has 
neglected to oil some of its parts. Now they are 
oiled. Attach the power — all is right. What is 
necessary? Engine, Engineer, Power. 

This lesson came to me: Body, Engine; Thought, 
Engineer; Life, Power — three in one. We have 
been trying to run this engine — body — with two en- 
gineers and two powers. "A house divided against 
itself will fall." Let one of the engineers go — 
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Thoughts. Acknowledge one power — Life. Let 
the other — Death — go. 

At first it will seem such a change, such a re- 
sponsibility upon you to let go of the one you have 
been leaning upon the most, you will feel as if the 
engine cannot move. Hold on! Let the engineer — 
Good Thoughts — have a chance to do their perfect 
work. All the knowledge is given to them. Some 
of the parts of the engine do not move easily. Let 
him oil them up with Health. The other engineer 
had been using oil of Sickness. Here is the oil of 
Gladness or Sadness, Strength for Weakness, Joy 
for Sortow. 

The power — Life — -will move all as soon as the 
engineer gets the rust of Death off each part. 
"Every part is necessary for the whole." It is won- 
derfully joined together. The hand cannot say to 
the foot, "I have no need of thee." The heart can- 
not say to the head, "I have no need of thee." Ev- 
ery member joined together, doing their work sev- 
erally. One power flowing through moving the 
whole. Body the engine. Thought the engineer, 
Life the power — three in one. 

'What God hath joined together let not man put 
asunder." When you make up your mind to have 
but one engineer, and one power, don't try to put 
on the full power all at once. You would soon tear 
the engine to pieces. Go slowly. Get used to the 
change. 

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upon the right track. But it can be done, for I am 
proving it today. 

If talking would open one's understanding, I 
would talk day and night. Did the teacher's talk- 
ing bring the understanding of our school lessons? 
No ; they only pointed the way. I took Jesus at his 
word. He said, "I am your brother." "I have 
found the way." I can point the way to you, but 
you must learn to walk in it. "The words I speak 
they are Spirit, they are Life." 

I held persistently to those words in my thought, 
not lip se^rvice: Life is Power; Life is Creator; 
Life pronounced His work good. I will claim my 
birthright inheritance from this source, and oh, the 
understanding that separates "Bom of God," "Bom 
in Sin and Iniquity." 

Claiming our inheritance of God — Life; claim- 
ing our inheritance from Adam — Death. "Choose 
ye whom ye will serve. You cannot serve two 
Masters." "The same fountain cannot give forth 
the bitter and the sweet." Can the sun shine forth 
Light and Darkness together? 

Oh, dear reader, try these thoughts for yourself, 
for it is the only way to "work out your own salva- 
tion." You must have your starting point right. 
Start with good, you will find good. "Truth never 
changes," Jesus taught. If your old doctrinal start 
is truth, you are bom in "sin and iniquity." You 
will go on through eternity a sinner, for "Truth 
never changes." Now how glad he was to tell the 
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lie." Who believed him? Only those who follow 
his commands. Life is the starting point. Life 
never changes — yesterday, today and forever the 
same. The things of Life are the good. Find them 
first in thoughts, then follow the word and deeds, 
"First the blade, then the ear, then the full-grown 
com." Body, the temple God gave us; Thought, 
the channel (Soul) connecting Body, and Spirit 
(Life) — ^three in one. Life contains Body, not 
Body, Life. "You cannot put the greater vessel 
inside the lesser." We have been on the wrong 
track, trying to put the greater (Life) inside the 
smaller (Body) ; change your thoughts. Body 
responds to thoughts. 

What lessons have we been taught of Thoughts? 
These: Never mind what you think of a person, 
so you do not speak them. Thought travels faster 
than electricity. Watch your thoughts. They go 
forth and return with their kind. "What we sow 
we reap." What thoughts have we of Heaven? 
Here or Hereafter? 

"Heaven is within, at hand." "Seek and ye 
shall find." 

"First in thought." We have been taught speech 
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GOD'S PROVISION 

"God makes the tender blade of grass. 

The twigs, and bits of clay, 
With which the busy robin builds; 

He makes the wisp of hay. 
The slender hairs and soft that line 

The well-constructed nest; 
God furnishes these things, but let 

Us not sit idle and forget 
The robin has to do the rest." 

"The inner side of every cloud 

Is bright and shining, 
And so I turn my clouds about, 
And always wear them inside out, 

To see the lining." 



"Wisdom ripens into silence. 

As she grows more truly wise, 

And she wears a mellow gladness 
In her heart and in her eyes. 

"Wisdom ripens into silence. 

And the lesson she doth teach, 

Is that life is more than language, 

And that thought is more than speech." 

Parents scrubbing away inside a child's mouth 
with soap and water to remove a naughty word. 
Where did the word come from? Could we speak 
if we did not think? Would the parent have known 
the word if they had not associated with it in 
thought? Can the brush and soap remove thought? 
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stand thoughts make speech, and how to plant the 
right thoughts? They can scrub the skin off the 
poor child's mouth. The result will be they have 
planted a thought of fear. The scrubbing has im- 
planted the thought deeper. The child will be 
afraid to speak the word where the parent can hear. 

"How can a brother tell a brother to cast the 
mote out of his eye, when he has a beam within his 
own?" 

When we realize what thought is, how fast it 
can travel, how we will watch and drill them in the 
good. 

Think of a star, thought is there; think of child- 
hood's home, thought is there. 

Thought is the root of speech. "Every plant 
(thought) the Heavenly Father did not plant 
(think) must be uprooted." 

Now use your spoken word; how far can it be 
heard? Only a few blocks away. 

The continual dripping of a drop of water will 
wear the stone away. 

The continual thinking of "I am born to die," 
will wear the body away. 

"Turn; why will ye die, when life is nigh? In 
Life ye live, in Life ye move, in Life ye have your 
Being." Do you know it? 

Dear reader, if you will take the words Jesus 
spoke and hold them in your thoughts until they 
are rooted, you will find they bring forth fruit of 
their kind. And the time will come when you will 
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our testimony will be as Jesus' and Paul's was: 
"Unto us a child is born, and his name is Christ. 
Glory to God in the highest. Peace on earth, good 
will to men." 

In the stillness of the night a voice spoke unto 
me, "Write." Not until it spoke the third time did 
I, like Samuel of old, heed it. Now I send these 
living thoughts forth from the heart. May they 
open for you what they have for me — the door of 
the Kingdom of Heaven. 



INDEX 

Introduction 5 

God's Creation 7 

The Problem 11 

God's Record 18 

Men's Record 21 

The Lesson 22 

The Charge 26 

The Work 27 

The Unfolding 31 

The Mark of High Calling 35 

One God 40 

One Commandment * 43 

True Communion 49 

Continuing Faithful 5l 

The Final Victory 57 

Paul's Testimony 61 

Be Ye Temperate 73 

Light 84 

A Few Thoughts of Life 100 

'The Life Line" 1 1 1 

'The Dead Picture" 113 

''A Living Picture" 1 14 

Flash the Searchlight 115 

God's Provision (Poem) 134 



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